question about uname on sparc

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

(Please cc, I'm not on debian-sparc)

shellutils currently applies this patch to uname:

--- shellutils-2.0.11.orig/src/uname.c
+++ shellutils-2.0.11/src/uname.c
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@
  struct utsname name;
  int c;
  char processor[256];
+#if defined(__sparc__) && defined(__linux__)
+  char *fake_sparc = getenv ("FAKE_SPARC");
+#endif

  program_name = argv[0];
  setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
@@ -188,6 +191,11 @@
    error (1, errno, _("cannot get processor type"));
#else
  strcpy (processor, "unknown");
+#endif
+
+#if defined(__sparc__) && defined(__linux__)
+  if (fake_sparc != NULL && (fake_sparc[0] == 'y' || fake_sparc[0] ==
'y'))
+    strcpy(name.machine, "sparc");
#endif

  print_element (PRINT_SYSNAME, name.sysname);

It's something I inherited, and I have no idea why it's there. Is there
any need for it currently on the sparc port? If not, I'd like to get rid
of it in sid.

Mike Stone


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