On Jul 15, 2007, at 14:25, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
On Jul 15, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jul 15, 2007, at 10:03, Yves de Champlain wrote:
Mmm i386 is for intel, sure. But x86 targets a wider set of
platforms (intel and AMD). So I always saw i386 as a subset of
x86.
Am I far off ?
On Jul 11, 2007, at 00:26, Yves de Champlain wrote:
I just saw "platform intel" Does that really work ?
I really have no idea about "x86" or "platform intel". Where is
the code in base that autoselects platforms? We could look there
to see what it supports.
it fetches uname, so whatever comes out is good
Ah. Well, uname -a shows i386 on my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X, but
I don't know what it outputs on all other operating systems on all
other computers. So what do we do now?
Part of the code that sets the platform name is in base/src/
port1.0/portmain.tcl, but I have to admit I don't remember the
original question of this post in order to provide a helpful
answer :-S What is it that we're trying to agree on? An Intel Mac
appropriate platform name? intel? i386? something else?
Well, it was your thread: you were normalizing platform names and
discovered things like "x86" and "intel". We were both wondering if
"intel" was a valid platform name anywhere, and I don't know how to
find out if "uname" returns "intel" on any computer. However, I can't
find any port containing "platform intel" now. Did you change it
already?
And you posited that "x86" worked on some platforms, while I know
that "i386" is correct for Intel Macs. In terms of what happens if
you write a platform selector in MacPorts, I don't think i386 is a
subset of x86 at all; if I were to draw a Venn diagram, I don't think
the two circles would intersect. uname either returns i386 (like on
Intel Macs) or it returns x86 (on some other Intel computers). I
think my point was just that any occurrences of "platform x86" or
"variant x86" should *not* be changed to "platform i386" because the
x86 selectors seem to have been used in the past to target non-Macs,
which would make this software start to fail on Intel Macs.
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