Re: amd64 <-> x86_64
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:48:12PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Now that the technical comitte has ruled in favour of 'amd64' for the debian
> archname (DEB_HOST_ARCH variable), I wonder what will happen with the other
> dpkg-architecture variables, which are actualy much more important than
> the architecture name dpkg uses internaly to identify debian ports.
>
> At the time of writing, dpkg-architecture identifies the platform as:
>
> DEB_HOST_ARCH = "x86-64"
> DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU = "x86_64"
It returns:
DEB_HOST_ARCH=amd64
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=x86_64
DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux
DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=x86_64-linux
This are the correct values. This is also what the official dpkg
returns since a few days ago.
Kurt
> The former will be changed to 'amd64'. Will you change the latter to 'amd64'
> too? If you had arguments to justify the name change for DEB_HOST_ARCH, I
> don't see why the same arguments wouldn't apply to DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU.
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU is the the GNU tools use. They use x86_64 on
Linux.
Kurt
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