On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:48:36PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > In my debian/rules I need to know the name of the architecture. I need the > name that is used in Debian packages "i386" for Intel or "arm" for ARM. > uname gives "i686" and "armv4l" respectively (and presumably has similar > problems on other platforms). > What do I do to get the generic name for the platform?
If you run dpkg-architecture, you can see exactly how dpkg will treat the current system. Use the output of that. If you are using debuild to build your package then it will automatically put all of that into the environment for you. D. -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.digital-scurf.org/ Hostmaster, Webmaster, and Chief Code Wibbler Digital-Scurf Unlimited GPG Public key available from keyring.debian.org KeyId: 20687895 Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.
