Interesting survey on Snow Leopard package managers

[vincent habchi]

Le 14 sept. 2009 à 22:15, Daniel J. Luke a écrit :

> On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:08 PM, vincent habchi wrote:
>>> K64 makes no difference - config.guess uses uname -p, which is  
>>> i386 on
>>> K32 and K64. The fact is that arch/uname aren't the correct tools  
>>> for
>>> determing the answer to this particular question.
>>
>> Granted that point, is it possible to build, or provide, a modified  
>> version of uname, to be put in the tools or whatever suitable  
>> directory, and that would override /usr/bin/uname with more  
>> sensible data? Does it make sense?
>
> No, but it's probably possible to get configure to correctly build a  
> triple by using other tools (like it has to do on solaris, for  
> example).
>
> It sounds like that's what Jack has done with his updated  
> configure.guess...
>
> I would tend to agree with Toby, though, that this probably isn't  
> something that needs to be addressed by base/

Could it also be reported as a bug to Apple, to be modified in a  
future SL patch? After all, if I read the manpage correctly, uname -p  
is supposed to reflect the processor architecture, which is not the  
architecture the kernel was build for.

V.