Building mplayer on 9.1-PRERELEASE host architecture "UNKNOWN"

Michael Copeland michael at kryptos-security.com
Sat Oct 6 19:37:37 UTC 2012


Configure script fails when detecting $host_arch.

guilty part is:

 # host's CPU/instruction set
  case "$(uname -m 2>&1)" in

x86_64|amd64|i[3-9]86*|i86pc|x86|x86pc|k5|k6|k6_2|k6_3|k6-2|k6-3|pentium*|athlon*|i586_i686|i586-i686)
host_arch=i386 ;;
      ia64) host_arch=ia64 ;;
      macppc|ppc*|Power*) host_arch=ppc ;;


uname -m gives us powerpc, this isn't here, so add it.


 # host's CPU/instruction set
  case "$(uname -m 2>&1)" in

x86_64|amd64|i[3-9]86*|i86pc|x86|x86pc|k5|k6|k6_2|k6_3|k6-2|k6-3|pentium*|athlon*|i586_i686|i586-i686)
host_arch=i386 ;;
      ia64) host_arch=ia64 ;;
      macppc|ppc*|Power*|powerpc) host_arch=ppc ;;


builds and installs now.


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