Recent config.guess versions fail to recognize i?86-pc-linux-gnu

[Phil Stracchino]

I've been wondering for some time why it is that recent software packages 
are unable to identify the system type on my otherwise unexceptional 
i586-pc-linux-gnu machine.  I just poked into config.guess and found the 
problem.

config.guess determines system type by examining the 'supported 
emulations' line of the output of ld --help.  On a system using gcc-3.0.4 
and binutils-2.11.2, this string is as follows:

ld: supported emulations: elf_i386 i386linux

However, config.guess currently appears to lack any option to match this.

The attached patch fixes this problem by adding a single line to recognize 
elf_i?86.



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config.guess.patch
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