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Date:      Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:20:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Subject:   Re: Tell gcc I have a i686
Message-ID:  <XFMail.020104112055.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C35F513.2F16AC08@math.missouri.edu>

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On 04-Jan-02 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> 
>> * Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> [020104 12:02] wrote:
>> > I want to create a Makefile for a C program that includes some Pentium
>> > II specific inline assembler code.  How do I tell the compiler whether
>> > we are compiling on a i686?
>> >
>> > For Linux, I can do something like this (for gnu-make)
>> > Arch = $(shell arch)
>> > cc ...... -DArch .....
>> >
>> > and inside the program
>> >
>> > #ifdef i686
>> >
>> > But arch doesn't exist on FreeBSD.
>> 
>> Isn't this somewhat trivial?
>> 
>> ARCH=i686
>> CFLAGS+=-D${ARCH}
>> 
>> ?
>> 
> 
> 
> What I want is a makefile that automatically detects whether it is on an
> i686 or not (not for me to tell it so).

This doesn't support a user who wants to compile an app that they want to run
on some other machine. :)  On FreeBSD, you can see if CPUTYPE is set from
make.conf, but it's not required to be set.

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