Fedora 9 64 bis

[Rick Stevens]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:05:24 +1100
> hce <webmail.hce at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just installed Fedora 9 64 bit on an Intel PC i686. Is there an
>> enviirnment macro I can check on a makefile to find it is a 64 bit OS?
> 
> You can ask the system itself: uname -a

Uh, more like "uname -m".  On a 32-bit machine:

	[root at testbox ~]# uname -m
	i686

On a 64-bit machine:

	[root at prophead ~]# uname -m
	x86_64

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