Re: Would like to use ARCH (uname -p) but it's not always correct (e.g. arm64)

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A good example:

"x11-wm/nscde: fix packaging when uname -m != uname -p"
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=4ae82fd2ee2059cd9ee0ec99bd6fd8062cd5dbdd

Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> escreveu no dia sexta, 30/12/2022 à(s)
08:22:

> Hello Tatsuki!
>
> I't seems that you dig it into source configs, I will take a look into
> this too.
>
> I was talking using ARCH (and OSREL, OSVERSION, etc) in a more generic way
> and only related to ports framework to easier some tasks like dinamic plist
> for some files that change with this vars:
>
> ---
> PLIST_SUB= ARCH=${ARCH}
> plist:
> libexec/NsCDE/FreeBSD_%%ARCH%%/colorpicker
> ---
> ---
> PLIST_SUB+= SHLIB_SHVER="${DISTVERSION:R}" \
>                        SHLIB_VER="${DISTVERSION}"
> plist:
> lib/root/libRHTTPSniff.so.%%SHLIB_SHVER%%
> lib/root/libRHTTPSniff.so.%%SHLIB_VER%%
> ---
>
> So my question is why people often choose a hack to `uname -m` instead of
> using ARCH (uname -p).
>
> Thanks
>
> Tatsuki Makino <tatsuki_makino@hotmail.com> escreveu no dia quinta,
> 29/12/2022 à(s) 21:41:
>
>> Tatsuki Makino wrote on 2022/12/30 06:17:
>> > For x11-wm/nscde, this is present in ${WRCSRC}/configure.ac.
>> >
>> > OS_PLUS_MACHINE_ARCH=`uname -sm | tr ' ' '_'`
>> > AC_SUBST(OS_PLUS_MACHINE_ARCH)
>> >
>>
>> Then, in the case of security/zeek, it seems that uname -m is used in
>> zeek-5.0.4/cmake/GetArchitecture.cmake of distfile.
>> That's also where FreeBSD gets lowercased.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>
>
> --
> Nuno Teixeira
> FreeBSD Committer (ports)
>


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