Re: Problems with top

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Aug 17, 12:59pm, raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost 
(raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Problems with top

| On Sunday 17 August 2008 09:34:59 Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > In article <200808141228.46033.raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost>,
| >
| >  <raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost> wrote:
| > >Hi, I just built and installed -current on Ultra 10. This is 32-bit sun4u
| > >kernel with 32-bit userland. When I try to run 'top' it prints the
| > > following message:
| > >
| > >top: incompatible hardware platform
| >
| > what is the value of make's $MACHINE variable, versus uname -m?
| >
| > christos
| 
| Where do I find out that? Running 'uname -m' gives sparc64, but the 
| distribution was cross-built on i386 for sparc port, i.e. kernel + userland 
| are 32-bit. I think this is the problem, during build stage make probably 
| thought MACHINE was sparc, but it's running on sun4u hardware. 

That's probably the problem. It does not make sense for uname -m to say sparc64
when you are running 32 bit binaries.

christos