On Friday May 13 2016 05:00:21 Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> I'm not giving that any thought. MacPorts is about installing software on OS 
> X. 

You mean it really should be renamed to OSXPorts? ^^

> MacPorts developers and maintainers do not have expertise about installing 
> software on Linux. 

I have a hunch more of them might resent that statement than you seem to think 
...

> There are other package managers that can be used to install software on 
> Linux.

I've been finding it very useful to use the same ports to install the same 
software on my various systems at home. It also makes it a lot easier to test 
patches on the "main OS" before submitting them to upstream.

> If someone knows how to determine if a Linux machine is 64-bit or 32-bit, 
> yes, that knowledge could be put into that file.

uname -p (processor) or uname -i (hardware platform) should do the trick (on 
64-bit; I don't have a 32-bit system ATM, not even a VM).
Doesn't Tcl have the equivalent of sizeof(void*) or sizeof(size_t)?

R.
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