* platform/architecture (was: new beta) @ 2011-01-26 23:21 Mojca Miklavec 2011-01-27 6:25 ` Taco Hoekwater 2011-01-27 6:39 ` Martin Schröder 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Mojca Miklavec @ 2011-01-26 23:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 22:16, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> Maybe "bash --version" would be more reliable than uname? > > If you do something like that, then you may as well do > > $ file /bin/ls Not too useful either ... > bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > file /bin/ls /bin/ls: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures /bin/ls (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64 /bin/ls (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386 However ... this discussion was already being held long ago ... there is no reason why luatex could not be as smart as "bash --version" is and aware of the architecture it was compiled for (that is not necessary the platform it is running on; an obvious case being i386 luatex running on 64-bit Mas OS X for example). Somebody would have to write some simple code to check for that though. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: platform/architecture (was: new beta) 2011-01-26 23:21 platform/architecture (was: new beta) Mojca Miklavec @ 2011-01-27 6:25 ` Taco Hoekwater 2011-01-27 6:39 ` Martin Schröder 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2011-01-27 6:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On 01/27/11 00:21, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > However ... this discussion was already being held long ago ... there > is no reason why luatex could not be as smart as "bash --version" is > and aware of the architecture it was compiled for (that is not > necessary the platform it is running on; an obvious case being i386 > luatex running on 64-bit Mas OS X for example). Somebody would have to > write some simple code to check for that though. http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=562 Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: platform/architecture (was: new beta) 2011-01-26 23:21 platform/architecture (was: new beta) Mojca Miklavec 2011-01-27 6:25 ` Taco Hoekwater @ 2011-01-27 6:39 ` Martin Schröder 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Martin Schröder @ 2011-01-27 6:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 2011/1/27 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>: > luatex running on 64-bit Mas OS X for example). Somebody would have to > write some simple code to check for that though. Somebody, anybody, nobody... ,-) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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