Minor suggestion

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2010-Jan-19 11:37:34 -0500, Steven Friedrich <freebsd at insightbb.com> wrote:
>My openoffice build failed because an environment variable, mch, wasn't set.

Can you give more details about what is failing because I've never
have this environment variable set and don't see any references to
in it OOo build logs.

>Shouldn't the build process be based on what info is available from uname, 
>rather than an environment variable that would have to be set by a user or 
>developer?

AFAIK, it is.

On 2010-Jan-22 17:09:18 +0100, Dirk Meyer <dirk.meyer at dinoex.sub.org> wrote:
>Uname would fail too,
>it would break when you build openoffice in ja 32bit jail on amd64.

You can set environment variables to change what uname reports.  I
have the following in my i386 jail:
MACHTYPE=i386
MACHINE=i386
UNAME_p=i386
UNAME_m=i386

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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