Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!4.us.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Thomas Goirand Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: platform.machine() on salsa i386 build? Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 02:20:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Sun Oct 31 00:14:12 2021 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.001 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -3.5 Organization: Debian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/19473 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/8ca58151-cfa4-3ea6-0446-f7a0f703e51c@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 18 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 02:13:53 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <8ca58151-cfa4-3ea6-0446-f7a0f703e51c@debian.org> X-Original-References: <87fssi3drb.fsf@poch> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:13673 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)