Il 24/08/2012 11:55, Peter Maydell ha scritto: >> > OpenBSD's uname works as expected with the -s flag so remove the special >> > handling when determining the target OS. Use arch -s to retrieve the >> > hardware architecture as uname -m will return the meta architecture >> > instead of the hardware architecture (.e.g. macppc vs powerpc). > I'm afraid I think this patch is moving in the wrong direction. > Wherever possible we should be using compiler checks like check_define, > not looking at the output of 'uname' and the like. The former will > work when cross compiling, and the latter will give the wrong answers. > In some places we have that kind of 'look at uname/etc' check but > we should be trying to reduce and eliminate it where possible.
Right, we should support GNU triplets and a --host argument, and replace uname checks with pattern matching on the triplet. Paolo
