Re: EpicsHostArch.pl for Intel OS X machines?

["Ernest L. Williams Jr." <ernesto@ornl.gov>]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:27 -0500, Eric Norum wrote:
> I'm trying to add Intel OS X support to EPICS.  The EpicsHostArch
> shell script changes are easy:
> Index: EpicsHostArch
> ===================================================================
> RCS
> file: /net/phoebus/epicsmgr/cvsroot/epics/base/startup/EpicsHostArch,v
> retrieving revision 1.6.4.2
> diff -u -r1.6.4.2 EpicsHostArch
> --- EpicsHostArch       1 Nov 2005 17:26:50 -0000       1.6.4.2
> +++ EpicsHostArch       5 Apr 2006 01:24:01 -0000
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
>         cpu=`uname -m`
>          case "$cpu" in
>              "Power Macintosh") cpu=ppc ;;
> +            "i386") cpu=x86 ;;
>          esac
>         echo ${os}-${cpu}${suffix}
>          ;;
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I've hit a roadblock with EpicsHostArch.pl, though.  The script uses
> $Config{'archname'} to get the host information, but on both Power PC
> and Intel OS X machines this gives: darwin-thread-multi-2level
> Any perl experts out there that can suggest a way to determine the CPU
> architecture?

Don't you want to leave it as "thread-multi-2level"?  

Apple uses a new ABI which means the same binary runs on PPC and INTEL,
hmmm?
I would use whatever GCC uses to make the "CROSS".


Thanks,
Ernest



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