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- From: andrewr@ultrix.EBay.Sun.COM (Andy Roach)
- Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
- Subject: Re: Can a script find out, under SVR4, the ABI to which a machine conforms?
- Message-ID: <lkorctINNcsf@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 17:51:25 GMT
- References: <16187@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1993Jan5.150047.19932@netcom.com>
- Reply-To: andrewr@Eng.Sun.COM
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.
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- Why whould a script care. The Generic ABI lists all the commands an
- ABI conforming script may call. If a script is attempting to perform
- different functions based on architecture type then by definition "sort of"
- the script is non ABI conforming.
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- The goal of the ABI is one executable per architecture and in the case of
- scripts, one script per generic ABI for all machines.
-
- Now this doesn't address the real world problem of having servers
- export a tree which contains binaries for a bunch of different machines,
- but some view this as an admin problem not an ABI problem.
-
- Andy
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