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Re: uname -m and MACHINE_ARCH



Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
pkgsrc's guide mentions that there used to be a ${ARCH} variable that
expanded to the same value as "uname -m".

However, as the guide says, this feature was removed.

I have a package (wip/libmicro) where nearly all build and
installtation
scripts use the output of uname -m to generate binaries.

I currently use MACHINE_ARCH, which expands to `uname -p`.

Out of interest, for portability reasons, what would be advised to make
the whole thing more portable, both from an OS and architecture PoV?

This intersects a problematic area on AIX (see PR 29386/41410 and related
>threads on this list, like my 21/jul/2009 comment), and I am all in favor
>of creating a wrapper to generalize this for portability's sake.

Well, I am only missing a wrapper for the "uname -m", but did not manage to find the reasons behind ${ARCH} removal.

What prevents the definition of such wrappers, like an ${HARDWARE_ARCH} as equivalent to `uname -m`?

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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