On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:20:10AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > > Yeah, seems reasonable, now i only need to find out how to call it > > from perl. > > %arch = split /[=\n]/, qx(dpkg-architecture) or die q(dpkg-architecture failed); > > should do nicely. [dpkg-architecture should exist once dpkg has been > unpacked...]
Mmm, the following was recomended to me : # Get the architecture we are running on, to set silent_modules on powerpc. open(FILE, "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH |"); undef $/; $arch = <FILE>; close(FILE); As said, i am no perl expert, is this better or worse than your solution ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
