Fwd: Interesting survey on Snow Leopard package managers

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon Sep 14 13:22:17 PDT 2009


On 2009-9-15 06:08, vincent habchi wrote:
> 
>> K64 makes no difference - config.guess uses uname -p, which is i386 on
>> K32 and K64. The fact is that arch/uname aren't the correct tools for
>> determing the answer to this particular question.
> 
> Granted that point, is it possible to build, or provide, a modified
> version of uname, to be put in the tools or whatever suitable directory,
> and that would override /usr/bin/uname with more sensible data? Does it
> make sense?

On a universal i386/x86_64 system, i386 is *a* correct answer for uname
-p to be giving...

- Josh


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