[Ecls-list] Minor change

Julian Stecklina der_julian at web.de
Mon Apr 14 14:36:03 UTC 2008


"Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll" <jjgarcia at users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Thanks for the advice!
>
>  - MACHINE-TYPE, MACHINE-INSTANCE, SOFTWARE-VERSION and similar functions are
>    now compliant and output NIL when they cannot guess the right information.
>    This information is gathered from the environment variables HOSTNAME
>    and HOSTTYPE (Unix), COMPUTERNAME, PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE, PROCESSOR_LEVEL
>    (Windows) and the output of the system function uname(), if available.

Neither HOSTNAME nor HOSTTYPE is set on Gentoo Linux. If some standard
advocates their use, I'll file a bug in the Gentoo Bugtracker. Can
anyone comment on that?

Regards,
-- 
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