# of unexpected failures 768 ?

[Dennis Clarke]

>
> Actually, it is uname showing the 'i386' on Solaris:
>   $ uname -p           # Prints the current host's ISA or processor type.
>   i386
>   $ uname -i           # Prints the name of the platform.
>   i86pc
>
> So I'd wonder if '--host=i386-pc-solaris2.8' actually does make any
> difference here.
>
> Just my 2 cents.

no prob.

Actually on Solaris you will always get 'i386' even if you are running on
a top of the line AMD Opteron 16-core machine with 8 sockets. It still
reports that it is a i386 and not x86_64 or even amd64.

Now isainfo and isalist are a whole other matter. Personally I'd like to
see conffigure take advantage of that data as it is much more rich.

On sparc you get this sort of data :

# isalist -a
sparcv9+vis sparcv9 sparcv8plus+vis sparcv8plus sparcv8 sparcv8-fsmuld
sparcv7 sparc
# isainfo -v
64-bit sparcv9 applications
32-bit sparc applications

On some old pentium box you get this :

Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.8       Generic February 2000
$
$ isalist -a
pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+mmx pentium i486 i386 i86
$ isainfo -v
32-bit i386 applications
$

Dennis


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