2011/5/9 Peter Sjöberg <[email protected]> > > > On 05/06/2011 02:49 PM, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 18:24, Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Not quite what you intended, but how about: > >> file $(which uname) > >> > > I often do exactly this with '/bin/ls' to test the OS bitness. > > > > Another alternative is to use gcc -dumpmachine ... which is available on all > > systems that matter :-) > > What am I missing?
Not sure. Richard and I both thought that Rob was asking about the userland bitness, as opposed to the kernel bitness. Uname is fine, as long as you assume the user isn't running a 64bit kernel and 32bit userland. Also, using uname cannot be trusted in some situations, say if you're building for a 32bit target in a chroot (and didn't run with linux32). This is something that should probably be part of LSB (lsb_release command), but isn't. -Bart _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
