> Am 04.12.2020 um 10:04 schrieb Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl>:
>
> On 12/4/2020 8:02 AM, Axel Kielhorn wrote:
>>> Am 01.12.2020 um 18:23 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster
>>> <wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> The following example shows the output of all commands:
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> \starttabulate [|T|T|]
>>> \NC \type{\jobname} \NC \jobname \NC\NR
>>> \NC \type{\jobfilename} \NC \jobfilename \NC\NR
>>> \NC \type{\jobfilesuffix} \NC \jobfilesuffix \NC\NR
>>> \NC \type{\inputfilename} \NC \inputfilename \NC\NR
>>> \NC \type{\inputfilebarename} \NC \inputfilebarename \NC\NR
>>> \NC \type{\inputfilesuffix} \NC \inputfilesuffix \NC\NR
>>> \NC \type{\outputfilename} \NC \outputfilename \NC\NR
>>> \NC \type{\operatingsystem} \NC \operatingsystem \NC\NR
>>> \stoptabulate
>>> \stoptext
>> On MacOS 10.13 the result of \operatingsystem is „osx-ppc“.
>> That was a surprise:-)
> maybe apples are no longer apples
They lost the Power when they became Intelligent, and now they get ARMed.
> because we cannot check for some env variable directly (at least we could not
> reliable when the code was written) a slower echo is used to check $HOSTTYPE
> and if we don't recognize something there we end up with a ppc because that
> was what osx started with
>
> now, in practice this is not that important because most systems don't
> distinguish between 32/64 or some mix wrt paths (i might actually remove a
> lot of that stuff because in luamatetex we're more normalized across
> platforms)
>
> the apple guesser is tricky because at least in the past there was no
> reliable way to figure it out, for instance uname didn't work well and we had
> this curious mix of 64 bit machines that osx refused to see as such (i
> remember that I had to root something in the old macbook to make it being
> seen as 64 bit instead of 32 in order to be able to update)
>
> what does your "echo $HOSTTYPE" mention?
Melora:~ axel$ echo $HOSTTYPE
x86_64
Melora:~ axel$ uname -a
Darwin 17.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.7.0: Fri Oct 30 13:34:27 PDT 2020;
root:xnu-4570.71.82.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
This computer thinks it is Intel based.
Greetings
Axel
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