[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] define _BSD_SOURCE for bktr.c

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:28:41PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 06:58:55PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> >> 
> >> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:02:55PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arch
> >> >> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uname
> >> >
> >> > Executive summary: 'uname' outputs the host architecture, 'arch'
> >> > outputs the target architecture.
> >> 
> >> What you just said makes no sense.  Those commands always report
> >> characteristics of the machine on which they run; cross-compiling is
> >> irrelevant here.
> >> 
> >> I think the answer is that the BSD uname reports the system type
> >> rather than the CPU architecture, e.g. pc instead of x86.  The
> >> standard is sufficiently vague ("the name of the hardware type") that
> >> an implementation can get away with this, annoying though it may be.
> >> 
> >> GNU coreutils includes an "arch" command documented as being
> >> equivalent to "uname -m".
> >
> > FWIW, on my Debian system, 'arch' is part of the util-linux package.
> > However, for whatever reason, it's only present on the Debian stable
> > box, the Debian testing box no longer has it...
> 
> What does it report, this "arch" of yours?

This is from a Debian stable box at the university:

diego at hutch:~$ arch
x86_64

Diego