Host names

The full naming scheme for hosts encodes three pieces of information in the following pattern:

architecture-vendor-os

For example, the full name for a Sun SPARCstation running SunOS 4.1.3 is

sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3

Remember that you can type configure without specifying a hosttype and your host will be divined by configure (see section config.guess). In fact, we recommend this procedure on most systems.

Warning: configure can represent a very large number of combinations of architecture, vendor, and operating system. There is by no means support for all possible combinations!

The following combinations refer to hosts supported by Cygnus Support. Some common short aliases are included, but these may be obsolete in the future. (For a matrix which shows all supported host/target combinations, see section `Overview' in Release Notes.)

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  canonical name             alias            platform
sparc-sun-solaris2       sun4sol2        Sun 4 running Solaris 2
sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3     sun4            Sun-4 running SunOS 4
mips-dec-ultrix          decstation      DECstation
rs6000-ibm-aix           rs6000          IBM RS6000
mips-sgi-irix4           iris            SGI Iris running Irix 4
m68k-hp-hpux             hp300hpux       HP 9000/300
hppa1.1-hp-hpux          hp700           HP 9000/700
i386-unknown-sysv4                       UnixWare
i386-lynx-lynxos         i386-lynx       Intel x86 LynxOS 2.2
m68k-lynx-lynxos         m68k-lynx       Motorola 68k LynxOS 2.2
sparc-lynx-lynxos        sparc-lynx      SPARC LynxOS 2.2
rs6000-lynx-lynxos       rs6000-lynx     IBM RS6000 LynxOS 2.2
alpha-dec-osf1.3                         DEC Alpha running OSF/1 v1.3

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