Subject: Re: CVS commit: othersrc/bootstrap-pkgsrc
To: Chris Pinnock <cjep@netbsd.org>
From: None <henning@openbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 12/08/2002 20:52:10
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:16:41PM +0000, Chris Pinnock wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:27:45PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:30:57PM +0200, Chris Pinnock wrote:
> > > 
> > > Module Name:	othersrc
> > > Committed By:	cjep
> > > Date:		Sun Dec  8 13:30:57 UTC 2002
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > > 	othersrc/bootstrap-pkgsrc: mkbinarykit
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > On OpenBSD use "arch -s" instead of "uname -p" as the output is shorter
> > > (e.g. Intel Pentium (P54C) ("GenuineIntel" 586-class)  versus i386).
> > 
> > actually uname -m fits for that. 
> 
> Does it distinguish between hardware architectures on OpenBSD?

oh yes!

> e.g. 
> on NetBSD on my RAQ2, uname -m gives cobalt, but uname -p is mipsel 
> (which is what I really want for most userland).

well, we have no mipsel ;-)

arch -s should be fine too, I have yet to see an occasion where this does
not match with uname -m on OpenBSD ;-)

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