Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-07 Thread joost witteveen
Bill Leach wrote: Joost Kooij wrote: On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote: [A very interesting and informative expose, thanks Joost!] As it works now (as I understand) the rules makefile effectively tries to make the build independent of the actual machine it is built on. Of

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 10:15:03AM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, joost witteveen wrote: Isn't this because we want packages built on Intel systems to be the same? If dpgk were to report Pentium, and some compiler is going to create real Pentium code (that doesn't run on

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Sorry, I missed the beginning of the thread, but these are the facts: uname -a will report your machine type, the same as in cat /proc/cpuinfo. Then, when you compile, you can specify an architecture. This can be i386, i486, i586 for intel. BUT

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-03 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Joost Kooij wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Sorry, I missed the beginning of the thread, but these are the facts: uname -a will report your machine type, the same as in cat /proc/cpuinfo. Then, when you compile,

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote: [A very interesting and informative expose, thanks Joost!] As it works now (as I understand) the rules makefile effectively tries to make the build independent of the actual machine it is built on. Of course this is great for maintainers who create a

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-03 Thread Bill Leach
I'm not so sure that it doesn't. That is certainly well within the capabilities of make itself... Joost Kooij wrote: On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote: [A very interesting and informative expose, thanks Joost!] As it works now (as I understand) the rules makefile effectively

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-02 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, joost witteveen wrote: Isn't this because we want packages built on Intel systems to be the same? If dpgk were to report Pentium, and some compiler is going to create real Pentium code (that doesn't run on i386), then you wouldn't be able to build Intel packages on your

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-02 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 10:15:03AM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, joost witteveen wrote: Isn't this because we want packages built on Intel systems to be the same? If dpgk were to report Pentium, and some compiler is going to create real Pentium code (that doesn't run on

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-02-27 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Joost Kooij wrote: Hi, I've been playing with some package's source and now I have a question: When I run ./debian/rules it prints lines containing: -DHOSTTYPE='i486' -DOSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DMACHTYPE='i486-debian-linux-gnu' I think that the

dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-02-24 Thread Joost Kooij
Hi, I've been playing with some package's source and now I have a question: When I run ./debian/rules it prints lines containing: -DHOSTTYPE='i486' -DOSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DMACHTYPE='i486-debian-linux-gnu' I think that the it is the line ARCH = $(shell dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture) that