Re: [LUATEX] uname() volunteers needed

[Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org>]

> This is a little offtopic (it deals with luatex only) but as
> Mojca said:  there are many more luatex-using people here than
> on dev-luatex.

  You could also try tlbuild@tug.org, the list of people building
binaries for TeX Live, where you can find people running all sorts of
architectures.  We're in the process of committing binaries for TeX Live
2008 right now, so running a small test would be a welcome distraction
and a matter of seconds.

  Anyway:

>                  To do that, I would appreciate it if the people
> on a non-linux32intel platform would compile and run the
> attached minimalistic C file.

  You're going to love that: on Solaris compilation works fine, but
execution prints “uname() failed”.  And indeed, the section 2 man page
for uname explains:

RETURN VALUES
     Upon  successful  completion,  a   non-negative   value   is
     returned.  Otherwise,  -1  is  returned  and errno is set to
     indicate the error.

  (In that case, it returned 1).  Looks like you have to check for errno ...

  Apart from that, the struct actually contains:

sysname:  SunOS
nodename: harmakis
release:  5.9
version:  Generic_117171-07
machine:  sun4u

  I also tested on Sparc Linux:

sysname:  Linux
nodename: notung
release:  2.6.22-14-sparc64
version:  #1 Sun Oct 14 21:57:46 GMT 2007
machine:  sparc64

 Note that “sun4u” means more or less the same than “sparc64”.

	Arthur
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