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Re: [PATCH] Add platform information to user agent string

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:04:02 +0100

On 02.11.2012 17:30, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>> On 02.11.2012 12:36, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>>> [..]
>>>> The sysinfo bits have static (build-time) info and dynamic (runtime)
>>>> info. Presumably the only difference will be noticing when you're
>>>> running the program on a different "size" of OS, e.g., running 32-bit
>>>> code on a 64-bit OS (hopefully in some compatibility mode).
>>>>
>>>> For the purpose of user agent strings, the host triplet exposed in the
>>>> #define in svn_private_config.h should be more than good enough.
>>>>
>>> I agree that using autoconf to collect OS type is much better. But I
>>> think we should use $target, instead of $host for user-agent to
>>> support cross compile scenarios. Also I've checked $target_os for our
>>> build bots and their values are:
>>> * OpenBSD: 'i386-unknown-openbsd5.0' ($target_os = 'openbsd5.0',
>>> $target_vendor='unknown')
>>> * Centos: 'x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' ($target_os='linux-gnu';
>>> $target_vendor='redhat')
>>> * Ubuntu: ''x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'' ($target_os=''linux-gnu'';
>>> $target_vendor='unknown')
>>>
>>> I've also googled for different autoconf outputs:
>>> * MacOS: 'x86_64-apple-darwin11.2.0'
>>> * cygwin: 'i686-pc-cygwin'
>>> * mingw: 'i686-pc-mingw32'
>>>
>>> We can use all $target triplet in user-agent or just $target_os. I
>>> have no opinion on this matter. Any thoughts?
>> I considered that, but our build scripts very definitely do not support
>> cross-compiling. So anyone who tries that and succeeds can easily add
>> another line to the already-huge patch that made cross-compiling possible.
>>
> Well, it seems our scripts actually supports cross compiling :) On
> Windows: you can build x86 binaries on x64 platform or vice versa.

Yes, but I hardly think that has anything to do with autoconf and
config.guess ... :)

-- Brane
Received on 2012-11-02 18:04:41 CET

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