Bug#193170: coreutils: 5.97-5.3 (Etch) still has the "uname -p" problem

2007-06-26 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 07:21:00AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:26:37AM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:11:06AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > >>Well, that's a mistake on their part, assuming distribution-specific > >>output from a standard

Bug#193170: coreutils: 5.97-5.3 (Etch) still has the "uname -p" problem

2007-06-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:26:37AM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:11:06AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Well, that's a mistake on their part, assuming distribution-specific output from a standard tool. well, it might be. But the result is that under Debian the instal

Bug#193170: coreutils: 5.97-5.3 (Etch) still has the "uname -p" problem

2007-06-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:09:07PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: OK, I see the point to some amount at least. Still I'm wondering why we do not fill in something more useful than "unknown" - the processor type is not completely unknown to us admitted that this info is already in the machine typ

Bug#193170: coreutils: 5.97-5.3 (Etch) still has the "uname -p" problem

2007-06-26 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:11:06AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:04:29AM +0200, you wrote: > >Recent Globus (www.globus.org) build scripts check for the output of > >"uname -p" > >(or Python's platform.processor() which is based on that value) to > >determine > >the pla

Bug#193170: coreutils: 5.97-5.3 (Etch) still has the "uname -p" problem

2007-06-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:04:29AM +0200, you wrote: Recent Globus (www.globus.org) build scripts check for the output of "uname -p" (or Python's platform.processor() which is based on that value) to determine the platform the build is intented for, resulting in an incorrect build (mixed 32/64 bi

Bug#193170: coreutils: 5.97-5.3 (Etch) still has the "uname -p" problem

2007-06-25 Thread Steffen Grunewald
Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5.3 Followup-For: Bug #193170 Although #193170 has been marked FIXED, the Etch version still returns "unknown" for "uname -p" - both on a 32bit i686 "uname -m" and a 64bit x86_64. Recent Globus (www.globus.org) build scripts check for the output of "uname -p" (or P