On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 3:43 PM Brian Callahan <call...@rpi.edu> wrote:
> Below is a small diff in response to some configuration attempts > found in ports land. > lang/ponyc uses $(shell getconf LONG_BIT) in its Makefile to > determine whether or not we're on a 64-bit platform. > It needs to know that at the scripting level, outside of the C code itself where it can directly test LONG_BIT (or perhaps better, _LP64)? Huh. > However, our getconf(1) doesn't support reporting LONG_BIT. > This diff enables it. GNU/FreeBSD/DragonFly/MacOS getconf reports > LONG_BIT, but NetBSD getconf does not. > Desirable? OK? > That's the way to do it, I just have this vague "what tempting lunacy has led them to this?" lurking in my mind. Philip Guenther
