[OpenIndiana-discuss] shouldn't uname report 64 bit arch?

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 9:46 PM Pierfrancesco Caci <ik5pvx at gmail.com> wrote:

> understood. How do I tell ./configure to compile for 64 bit then? It is
> basically using the wrong test to decide the architecture, but I don't know
> how to change it.
>

Passing -m64 is enough.



> I can see that config.guess has this portion:
>
>
>    i86pc:SunOS:5.*:* | i86xen:SunOS:5.*:*)
>         set_cc_for_build
>         SUN_ARCH=i386
>         # If there is a compiler, see if it is configured for 64-bit
> objects.
>         # Note that the Sun cc does not turn __LP64__ into 1 like gcc does.
>         # This test works for both compilers.
>         if test "$CC_FOR_BUILD" != no_compiler_found; then
>             if (echo '#ifdef __amd64'; echo IS_64BIT_ARCH; echo '#endif') |
> \
>                 (CCOPTS="" $CC_FOR_BUILD -E - 2>/dev/null) | \
>                 grep IS_64BIT_ARCH >/dev/null
>             then
>                 SUN_ARCH=x86_64
>             fi
>         fi
>
> not sure if it is relevant though.
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 9:36 PM Aurélien Larcher <
> aurelien.larcher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 9:12 PM Pierfrancesco Caci <ik5pvx at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm trying to compile xf86-video-qxl. It comes out as 32 bits, instead
> of
> > > 64.
> > >
> > > $ file /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/qxl_drv.so
> > > /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/qxl_drv.so: ELF 32-bit LSB dynamic
> > lib
> > > 80386 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped
> > >
> > > for comparison:
> > > $ file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/amd64/vesa_drv.so
> > > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/amd64/vesa_drv.so:        ELF 64-bit LSB
> > > dynamic lib AMD64 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped, no
> > debugging
> > > information available
> > >
> > > I checked configure.log and it clearly gets the 32 bit info here:
> > >
> > >   $ ./configure --disable-selective-werror
> > >
> > > ## --------- ##
> > > ## Platform. ##
> > > ## --------- ##
> > >
> > > hostname = openindiana
> > > uname -m = i86pc
> > > uname -r = 5.11
> > > uname -s = SunOS
> > > uname -v = illumos-dea3b85466
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/uname -p = i386
> > > /bin/uname -X     = System = SunOS
> > > Node = openindiana
> > > Release = 5.11
> > > KernelID = illumos-dea3b85466
> > > Machine = i86pc
> > > BusType = <unknown>
> > > Serial = <unknown>
> > > Users = <unknown>
> > > OEM# = 0
> > > Origin# = 1
> > > NumCPU = 6
> > >
> > > /bin/arch              = i86pc
> > > /usr/bin/arch -k       = i86pc
> > > /usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
> > > /usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
> > > /bin/machine           = unknown
> > > /usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
> > > /bin/universe          = unknown
> > > [....etc]
> > >
> > > I checked also the OmniOS VM and that also reports i86pc.
> > > So, am I misunderstanding something, or did I just find a bug in uname?
> > >
> >
> > On Solaris/illumos i86pc denotes the architecture encompassing x86 and
> > x86_64, here called i386 and amd64 respectively.
> >
> > The command 'isainfo' returns the supported Instruction Set Architectures
> > (ISA) for the machine while 'isalist' returns all the extensions.
> >
> > narval> isainfo
> > amd64 i386
> > narval> isalist
> > amd64 pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+mmx pentium i486 i386 i86
> >
> >
> > > Pf
> > > --
> > >  Pierfrancesco Caci, ik5pvx
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