Re: osx-64-binaries/minimals

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>>>> The software test:
>>>>> Yue:context yue$  if test `uname -r|cut -f1 -d"."`  -ge 10 ; then
>>>>> echo yes; else echo no; fi
>>>>> yes
>>> hm, we need to use the methods built in luatex
>> Someone should check what is returned in the os.uname() return table.
> 
> Mine returns
> 
> t={
>  ["machine"]="x86_64",
>  ["nodename"]="...[my ip]...",
>  ["release"]="10.0.0",
>  ["sysname"]="Darwin",
>  ["version"]="Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:46:25 PDT
> 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_X86_64",
> }
> 
> but I'm booting in 64-bit mode (I need to reboot first to check for
> return value in 32-bit mode).
> 
> On one hand uname doesn't return anything usable when booting with
> 32-bit kernel, but on the other hand one probably already runs the
> 64-bit luatex at the time when mtxrun needs to determine the
> architecture.

Well, I doubt you can discover whether you have a totally 32bit software
environment with a 64bit kernel without lots of trickery (but I could
be wrong about that). In any case, os.uname() will give the same results
as the shell command uname.

64bit osx runs 32bit executables (I assume) so you could make the
initial luatex (the one used during install) be a 32bit one, then make
that one decide on which one to use for normal typesetting?

Best wishes,
Taco


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