Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> writes:
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> The approach that I thought about when I first ran into this problem
> was to have the config script examine the value of `uname -i` to decide
> which output to produce. I remember being told that that wasn't
> acceptable, but I do not recall exactly why not.
It would likely require use of 'setarch i386' before calling
the script
in order for uname -i to output the 32bit you may be targeting in that
run, which people may not expect.
Right, it absolutely would require you to setarch before launching a
build for the 32-bit arch. The question is why that's so unworkable.
Especially when the present alternative just plain doesn't work.
I note that it's already expected by a lot of spec files (or at least
by several of mine) that `uname -i` correctly reports the target arch.
regards, tom lane