Re: port-arm/48215: pkg_add fails on recent NetBSD/evbearmv6hf-el current

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Sep 17, 2013, at 10:35 AM, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR port-arm/48215; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
> To: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
> Cc: port-arm-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
> gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
>    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, ryoon%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
> gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Subject: re: port-arm/48215: pkg_add fails on recent NetBSD/evbearmv6hf-el 
> current
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 03:30:37 +1000
> 
>> | since these binaries are always going to report the same value,
>> | i suspect that fixing arm/param.h to report the right value
>> | depending on the compiler options would fix the problem without
>> | having to patch every program that uses them to use sysctl on
>> | netbsd...
>> 
>> The problem is that some archs with different machine_archs use the
>> same toolchain and can't be told apart.
> 
> how so?  can't the header file define MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH based
> upon the compiler defines?  eg, from sparc64/param.h:
> 
> #ifdef __arch64__
> #define _MACHINE        sparc64
> #define MACHINE         "sparc64"
> #define _MACHINE_ARCH   sparc64
> #define MACHINE_ARCH    "sparc64"
> #define MID_MACHINE     MID_SPARC64
> #else
> #define _MACHINE        sparc
> #define MACHINE         "sparc"
> #define _MACHINE_ARCH   sparc
> #define MACHINE_ARCH    "sparc"
> #define MID_MACHINE     MID_SPARC
> #endif

For evbearm & evbearmv5, there is nothing to distinguish them.
Ditto for evbearmhf & evbearmv5hf.