On 2011-01-12 13:34 +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:19:18PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Hi, > > Hello, > >> I try to build a package which needs information about the architecture >> at compile time. Upstream said I need to set ARCH_64=1 if the >> architecture has 64 bit *pointers* (they said on architectures with 64 >> bit integers and 32 bit pointers the programm needs to be compiled as 32 >> bit). Is there any safe way to obtain this information automatically or >> do I need to do some lookup in a table with `dpkg --print-architecture` >> as key (and if yes how would this table look like in the sense above)? > > See dpkg-architecture(1), in particular: > > $ dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH_BITS
Not quite, DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS is what you need. See also the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/09/msg00177.html. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkr6thxy....@turtle.gmx.de
