Re: $HOSTTYPE

2008-07-15 Thread Chet Ramey
Peter Lowe wrote: Hello, How does bash determine $HOSTTYPE? Is it dependent on the version of bash installed - if I install i586 packages on an x86_64 platform, will $HOSTTYPE be i586? (I wouldn't've thought so, but I wanted to check.) It's set from the `CONF_HOSTTYPE' define, which is passe

$HOSTTYPE

2008-07-15 Thread Peter Lowe
Hello, How does bash determine $HOSTTYPE? Is it dependent on the version of bash installed - if I install i586 packages on an x86_64 platform, will $HOSTTYPE be i586? (I wouldn't've thought so, but I wanted to check.) Thanks in advance for any help; and apologies if I'm missing somewhere I c