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Re: platform.machine() on salsa i386 build?

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On 10/30/21 8:43 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 02:20:40PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> I have a package (pyraf) where I need to switch off some tests for i386
>> (but not for other 32-bit platforms). I do this by
>>
>> import platform
>> is_i386 = platform.machine() in ('i386', 'i486', 'i586', 'i686')
> Yup, this is incorrect. This is the same as `uname -m` and so returns the
> kernel architecture.
> If you want to do this purely at the upstream side without checking
> DEB_HOST_ARCH, AFAIK there is no 100% reliable way to do this.

I would also advise to use DEB_HOST_ARCH... Maybe with some fallbacks if
you wish to upstream it?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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platform.machine() on salsa i386 build? Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2021-10-30 14:50 +0200
  Re: platform.machine() on salsa i386 build? Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-10-30 20:50 +0200
    Re: platform.machine() on salsa i386 build? Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2021-10-31 02:20 +0200
  Re: platform.machine() on salsa i386 build? Nilesh Patra <nilesh@nileshpatra.info> - 2021-10-30 21:30 +0200
    Re: platform.machine() on salsa i386 build? Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2021-10-30 23:40 +0200
  Re: platform.machine() on salsa i386 build? Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2021-10-30 21:50 +0200

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