Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:05:24 +1100
hce <webmail.hce(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed Fedora 9 64 bit on an Intel PC i686. Is there an
> enviirnment macro I can check on a makefile to find it is a 64 bit OS?
You can ask the system itself: uname -a
Uh, more like "uname -m". On a 32-bit machine:
[root@testbox ~]# uname -m
i686
On a 64-bit machine:
[root@prophead ~]# uname -m
x86_64
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks(a)nerd.com -
- AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 -
- -
- Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right -
----------------------------------------------------------------------