From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 15 23:57:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2200437B503; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 23:57:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f1G7vJe04268; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:57:19 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:57:19 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Call for *quick* review] architecture-specific manpages Message-ID: <20010216095719.F2869@sunbay.com> Mail-Followup-To: Maxim Sobolev , mi@aldan.algebra.com, arch@FreeBSD.org References: <200102152119.f1FLJ6v10117@misha.privatelabs.com> <3A8C4C02.D8300939@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A8C4C02.D8300939@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:37:06PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:37:06PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote: > > > On 15 Feb, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > [...] > > = Why not to use HW_MACHINE mib to get current arch, so it would just work [tm] w/o the > > = need to define MACHINE env variable? > > > > Because I may be interested in the man page for one architecture while > > working on the other? There should be a command line option for that > > too, IMHO... > > Please read my message again. I have not implied that detection of > MACHINE env variable should be removed. I only noted that value > returned by the HW_MACHINE mib is to be used when no MACHINE env > variable is defined. > ``machine = MACHINE'' line in the patch will use the value defined in . This is faster than looking for hw.machine. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message