Subject: bin/26664: uname -m doesn't return anything usefull
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org>
From: None <jb13@gomerbud.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/14/2004 22:11:14
>Number: 26664
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: uname -m doesn't return anything usefull
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Aug 15 05:23:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:
>Release: NetBSD 2.0_BETA
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD noctum.gomerbud.com 2.0_BETA NetBSD 2.0_BETA (NOCTUM) #5: Sat Aug 14 05:53:35 PDT 2004 root@noctum.gomerbud.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/NOCTUM sparc
Architecture: sparc
Machine: sparc
>Description:
by having uname -m & -p return the same thing it makes it a lot harder
to write configure scripts for programs
>How-To-Repeat:
run uname -pm on any version of netbsd
>Fix:
sparc:
uname -pm: sparc sun4m
i386:
uname -pm: i386 athlon-xp
etc.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: