[Omake] $(MACHINE)

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 25.11.2006 15:48, malc wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> omake-doc claims that:
> <quote>
> MACHINE
>         The machine architecture, e.g.  i386, sparc, etc.
> </quote>
> 
> This is not quite the case however, on the athlon box running
> linux evaluating $(MACHINE) yields `i686', on powerpc linux - `ppc',
> the same machine running Mac OS X - `Power Macintosh'.

Currently we use whatever the uname system call gives us.

> It would be nice if this was somewhat more standartized, perhaps
> something like `config.guess'es host triplet?

Possibly (with $(MACHNAME)-???-$(SYSNAME)-??? being the triplet).
Alternatively, we could try rewriting config.guess in the OMake language
to compute the triplet based on the "raw" MACHNAME and SYSNAME...

Aleksey