From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3847 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2000 13:13:25 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 26 Mar 2000 13:13:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 20121 invoked by alias); 26 Mar 2000 13:13:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10253 Received: (qmail 20113 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2000 13:13:10 -0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.6-dev-20: runtime determination of MACHTYPE In-Reply-To: <20000325104018.A3765@dman.com> from Clint Adams at "Mar 25, 2000 10:40:18 am" To: Clint Adams Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:13:05 +0100 (BST) CC: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Zefram Clint Adams wrote: >This patch allows zsh to determine MACHTYPE at run-time, rather >than from the configure results of the build-machine, assuming >uname(2) is available. It's not that easy. Look at config.guess: $MACHTYPE is not always the same as `uname -m`. Leave $MACHTYPE being compiled in as it was. If you want access to the runtime uname strings without forking off a uname process, invent a new special parameter. -zefram