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Article #431Re: Can a script find out, under SVR4, the ABI to which a machine conforms?
From: Andy Roach
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 17:51
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 17:51
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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. 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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pmafire!news.dell.com!texsun!cronkite.Central.Sun.COM!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!sun!ultrix!andrewr 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. Lines: 13 NNTP-Posting-Host: ultrix