On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 04:29:27PM -0400, Paul Gress wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have snv93 installed on my laptop and having trouble installing some 
> additional software.  The software has an install script that uses the 
> command "uname -p" to determine if sparc of i386.  Well on my laptop 
> this command returns nothing, as in blank output.  Does anybody know 
> where this information is stored or accessed or how ti fix this 
> problem.  Because of this I cannot install the software.  I also cannot 
> edit the install script as there is to much binary data.

Well, as a messy workaround to get your software installed, you could 
perhaps create a little script called "uname" that returns the correct 
value for "-p", put it in a directory, and put that directory ahead 
of /bin in your $PATH.  This will work if the installation script doesn't
fully qualify the uname path.

But I'm surprised that you're getting a blank value.  What kind of
x64 laptop is this?

What do these commands say?

   /bin/uname -a
   isainfo -v
   /usr/sbin/smbios -t 4

It's definitely a bug if "uname -p" returns a blank value.
   
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