Re: [PATCH] kbuild, deb-pkg: fix Architecture field when cross compiling

Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2010-11-04T13:34:02Z

On 11/04/2010 12:36 PM, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 4.11.2010 13:29, Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote:
>> No, not if you are cross compiling since ARCH=x86 isn't specific to
>> either, we would have to look at the config. In that case it is better
>> to do something like:
>>
>> x86|i386|x86_64)
>> debarch=$(grep -q CONFIG_64BIT=y .config &&
>
> No, you should use $UTS_MACHINE (`uname -m` in the resulting kernel),
> like make rpm-pkg does, and only translate x86_64 to amd64.

Ok, sorry, hadn't caught that it was on the resulting kernel.

So that solves the x86 architectures, but according to a quick git grep,
.config analysis is still needed for arm(el) and mips(el).