Thanks for those tips.

> Well... maybe you want to have a look at the config.guess of the 
> GNU autoconf/automake framework which does all that for you and 
> is designed to be portable.

	This is what I'm already doing. This is why I said that the
configure file already contains all the info I need, but I asked
Thorsten to try `uname -m` before I checked in the file itself.
	I need the architecture type to choose the best optimization
flags to use for compilation. Those flags are tested within the
configure script. Actually I should already use those that were
proposed in 3.1g ...

	- NC

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