Hi there, I am back from india, and now back into maintaining cmake for our project(s). Today I came across a problem regarding CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR. As I understood platform definition files are supposed to set this value. The documentations says here: On systems that support uname, this variable is set to the output of uname -p, on windows it is set to the value of the environment variable PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
But uname -p and PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE do not really match. I.e. the cmake value will be x86 on windows, and i686 in linux, or maybe i486 depending on the distribution. In cygwin uname is supported, but for some reasons it returns unknown. I think in most cases the user needs a coarse information like x86 x86_64 or arm. Then maybe in an additional variable the processor generation like i686 or armv4 .. and so on. To make it easier for people writing platform definitions, or platform aware cmake scripts, there should be a list of common values for the CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR and other similar variables. kind regards Andreas Pokorny _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
