On Nov 8, 2013, at 01:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I can submit a patch, but I would first like to ask why the script uses
>UNAME_PROCESSOR=`uname -p`
> rather than
>UNAME_PROCESSOR=`uname -m`
>
> m: print the machine hardware name
> p: print the machine processor architecture name
>
>
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2013, at 01:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> I can submit a patch, but I would first like to ask why the script uses
>>UNAME_PROCESSOR=`uname -p`
>> rather than
>>UNAME_PROCESSOR=`uname -m`
>>
>> m: print the machine hardware
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Mojca Miklavec
wrote:
>
> I can submit a patch, but I would first like to ask why the script uses
> UNAME_PROCESSOR=`uname -p`
> rather than
> UNAME_PROCESSOR=`uname -m`
I'm sorry, I didn't express myself properly. I actually wanted to ask
why the final re
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 2013-11-06 00:26, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>>The role of config.guess should be figuring out what architecture we
>>are compiling *for* (that could easily be i386 or ppc even on x86_64).
>
> This has come up before on the config
On Wednesday 2013-11-06 00:26, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>The role of config.guess should be figuring out what architecture we
>are compiling *for* (that could easily be i386 or ppc even on x86_64).
This has come up before on the config-patches list[1]. config.guess's
job is not to tell you what yo
Karl et al.,
The background on this config.guess issue is here:
http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2013-October/034385.html
I'll let Mojca talk about the 64-bit issue if she wants. I'll note that
as of Mac OS X 10.7, support for 32-bit processors has been dropped, so
we're guaranteed a x86_64 ker
Dear Karl,
I'm just shortly explaining some points below (without a complete
answer or patches yet).
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> So, to state the obvious, please write config-patches@gnu.org and cc me,
> explaining the problem with the compiler situation. Please also s
