Subject: Re: where are MACHINE_ARCH and LOWER_ARCH defined?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <email@example.com>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 01/11/2003 11:50:51
>Where are MACHINE_ARCH and LOWER_ARCH defined?
MACHINE_ARCH comes from uname, the environment or the command line.
bmake allows a forced MACHINE_ARCH to be built in - for cases where uname
doesn't provide a value - or its wrong. But you can always override via
the enviornment or command line.
>Anyways, my problem is my MACHINE_ARCH is i686, but some Makefiles only
>check for i386.
This is common on linux too - uname -m outputs i686 etc, uname -p outputs
"unknown" which is particularly lame. The JDK and most of my stuff
fold i?86 to i386 (who cares about anything else?) and
"unknown" -> i386 too if MACHINE is i?86.