Re: [Tack-devel] CVS & the new build system

[tim k. <gt...@di...>]

At 9:52 AM -0400 7/21/06, David Given wrote:
>Incidentally, NetBSD appears not to have an 'arch' command
>--- what's the portable equivalent?

Try machine(1).  Man pages says equivalent to uname -m

> man machine
D O........n......o..P....eCVSP....O......o..Root1/4pESRepository
V....EntriesU........Entries.LogV....Entries.Backup':pserv-
MACHINE(1)                BSD General Commands Manual               MACHINE(1)

er:an...@an...:/cvsroot

NAME
     machine -- print machine type

SYNOPSIS
     machine

DESCRIPTION
     The machine command displays the machine type.  It is equivalent to
     `uname -m'.

SEE ALSO
     make(1), uname(1)

HISTORY
     A machine command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

BSD                              May 24, 2003                              BSD
> machine
macppc

(yeah, I don't know what the junk is in my man pages.  It shows up after I
build and install userland, possibly because of differences in kernel
version, it's a long story)

tim

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