Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote:
> A bit of an oddity. On all other platforms (at least I think so), the
> output from 'uname -m' matches the name of the directory under packages,

For all supported platforms, the name of the package directory matches
'machine -a'.  Because packages are compiled for a specific processor type,
not a platform.  For example, the mac68k and mvme68k platforms both have a
'machine -a' output of 'm68k' - ditto with the macppc and socppc platforms.
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 Matthew Weigel
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