os.arch is arm64
(16:39:32 Tue Jun 23 2020 jeremy@airbear ttys000 arm64)
[617] ~ $ uname -m
arm64
(16:39:33 Tue Jun 23 2020 jeremy@airbear ttys000 arm64)
[618] ~ $ uname -p
arm
> On Jun 23, 2020, at 4:33 PM, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote:
>
> Do you mean arm64 is what `uname -p` prints, or what
> $tcl_platform(machine) contains, or both?
>
> On 2020-6-24 08:48 , Jeremy Sequoia via macports-dev wrote:
>> It is arm64.
>>
>>> On Jun 22, 2020, at 9:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Now that Apple has announced that Macs will have ARM processors [1], what
>>> is the proper value for ${os.arch} on such systems?
>>>
>>> MacPorts base currently knows two values of ${os.arch}: "powerpc" is used
>>> on all 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC systems while "i386" is used on all 32-bit
>>> and 64-bit Intel systems.
>>>
>>> I'm not necessarily asking what value MacPorts currently prints for this
>>> variable on an Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit machine, but rather
>>> what value it should print. We may need add code to MacPorts base to make
>>> this happen, just as there is already code to produce the two existing
>>> values:
>>>
>>>
>>> # set up platform info variables
>>> set os_arch $tcl_platform(machine)
>>> if {$os_arch eq "Power Macintosh"} {set os_arch "powerpc"}
>>> if {$os_arch eq "i586" || $os_arch eq "i686" || $os_arch eq "x86_64"}
>>> {set os_arch "i386"}
>>>
>>>
>>> Should it be "arm"?
>>>
>>> Whatever we choose will impact how ports are written so we need to make a
>>> choice and then stick to it.
>>>
>>> I also need to know so that I can modify mprsyncup to start generating a
>>> portindex on our server for such systems.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-announces-mac-transition-to-apple-silicon/
>>>
>>
>
