I sent a message to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] about the problem I had
getting uname -p to work. Here's the reply I received (FWIW)
Begin forwarded message:
Date: July 19, 2007 9:46:32 PM EDT
Subject: Re: uname problem on Mac OS X
TjL wrote:
uname -p: i386
guname -p: unknown
The GNU uname program simply reports the result from the kernel system
call uname(2).
man 2 uname
If the kernel does not report the processor type then GNU uname does
not have any information to work with. Some vendors compile programs
specifically for a single architecture and hard code in a value but
this is not portable. The 'uname -p' option is not one of the
standard options and I recommend that use of it is avoided.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/uname.html
Actually use of uname for any purpose other than returning the system
name is quite troublesome for portability. I would avoid it in all
cases other than when you know that it is going to return meaningful
data.
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