Re: automatic system info tool?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: automatic system info tool?
Date: 2006-07-16 22:49:26
Message-ID: 44BAC276.8040602@dunslane.net
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Someone at the conference mentioned a tool that would portably and
>>reliably report system info such as architecture.
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>What's wrong with config.guess?
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That will probably be OK for architecture.

We also classify buildfarm machines by <os, os_version, compiler,
compiler_version> and config.guess doesn't give us that, unfortunately.

However, I will look at canonicalising the architecture to the
config.guess values reported.

cheers

andrew

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