Re: Brute force hack for default MACHINE_ARCH on 64/32 bit NetBSD installations

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:23:51PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> To find a middle ground between your goals and Joerg's objection, I
> wonder if there should be a sysctl or something to
> define/declare/communicate the default ABI of the system.

Sorry, I forgot to follow-up on this. Matt Thomas made the sysctl
hw.machine_arch on this systems depend on the emulation in use:

hw.machine = evbmips
hw.model = Cavium Octeon CN50XX
hw.machine_arch = mips64eb

and now pkgsrc works out of the box with no changes to the pkg tools.

Martin