Xen devel - Oct 2005 - Re: [Xen-changelog] Added auxbin module, for handling auxillary binaries.

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:32 +0000, Xen patchbot -unstable
wrote:
> +def path():
> +    machine = os.uname()[4]
> +    if machine.find(''64'') != -1 and
os.path.exists(LIB_BIN_64):
> +        return LIB_BIN_64
> +    else:
> +        return LIB_BIN_32
This will break on ia64.  Itanium doesn''t use lib64 paths.  So you
really want to check against explicit values for the arch

Jeremy


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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:02:30AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:32 +0000, Xen patchbot -unstable wrote:
> > +def path():
> > +    machine = os.uname()[4]
> > +    if machine.find(''64'') != -1 and
os.path.exists(LIB_BIN_64):
> > +        return LIB_BIN_64
> > +    else:
> > +        return LIB_BIN_32
> 
> This will break on ia64.  Itanium doesn''t use lib64 paths.  So you
> really want to check against explicit values for the arch
So could you tell me which path I should use for which uname -m?

Ewan.

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