Re: EpicsHostArch.pl for Intel OS X machines?

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Eric Norum wrote:
> True, and EPICS already has the configure/os/xxxx files 
> ('EPICS_HOST_ARCH=darwin-fat') for this.  It does double the compile 
> time and object module sizes, though.   I'm not sure that machines are 
> fast enough and disks big enough for this to no longer be a problem.   I 
> guess the easiest approach is to have the EpicsHostArch shell and perl 
> scripts return darwin-fat.  If you want faster builds and smaller files 
> you would manually set EPICS_HOST_ARCH to darwin-ppc or darwin-x86 as 
> appropriate.
>
> Are you OS X users out there okay with this?

Personally I'd prefer that the script tell you exactly what machine it's 
running on, and if you want something more generic you override it 
manually.  The perl code could use `uname -m` to find out what machine 
it's running on exactly like the shell version does.

Note that that the perl %Config hash is not derived from the binary 
actually running, it uses information from the installed library files 
which may have to be the same on both archs anyway, so Perl may *never* 
know what its own CPU architecture is that way (that's my guess anyhow).

- Andrew
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