[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#469882: Bug#469882: Bug#469882:

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Fri Apr 25 09:06:06 UTC 2008


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:31:16PM +0200, Mathias Behrle wrote:
> (x86_64)mathiasb at obelix:~$ uname -m
> x86_64
> ...

Argh, this used to be amd64. That explains it.

> I think, the second statement of these 3 conditions will always match , if you
> are running i386 or x86_64...

Right.

> I don't see the purpose of the conditions above besides ARCH := `uname -m`, so
> IMHO they should be removed.

Unfortunately it has a purpose. You need some setting if you want to
compile e.g. a 686 module on your system, or the amd64 on an i386
system.

Michael
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