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On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:36:05 +0100 Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:12:47 +0100 > Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Neil, > > > MACHTYPE isn't even set as an environment variable in Debian, so don't > > It is here. I never set it, but '$ echo $MACHTYPE' prints > 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' to the console. > > Maybe it got set when I installed compiler tools installed from the > repos. IDK. Not the same thing. That's a bash builtin which is build-dependent. Don't rely on it. shell builtin != environment variable. Depending on what you are trying to achieve, ask the kernel, the compiler or the packaging system for the architecture variables. -- Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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