On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 13:14:49 +0100, Wookey wrote: > But the case of uname _is_ easy to deal with - use dpkg-architecture.
Well, not really if the patch is supposed to go upstream, given that dpkg-architecture is not a distribution-neutral interface. In most of the cases uname is wrong because the build system should be checking for features instead of hardcoded lists of architectures and because its output is not really normalized across different operating systems, or as mentioned on this thread the detection should really be delayed until run-time. But if the architecture is needed for whatever reason then using something like config.guess/sub's output and a way to distinguish between host and build architectures is probably better. > And on the original point, anything checking /sys for HOST arch stuff > is likely to be getting it wrong too - fine for BUILD arch checks. Right. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120927135557.ga...@gaara.hadrons.org