I'm seeing this is phobos/posix.mak:

MODEL:=default
ifneq (default,$(MODEL))
      MODEL_FLAG:=-m$(MODEL)
endif

I find it unpleasant that we have directories generated/xxx/yyy/{32,64,default} of which default is identical to another.

Is there a simple and robust technique to detect the default model on a given platform?


Thanks,

Andrei
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On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 23:30:12 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'm seeing this is phobos/posix.mak:
> 
> MODEL:=default
> ifneq (default,$(MODEL))
>        MODEL_FLAG:=-m$(MODEL)
> endif
> 
> I find it unpleasant that we have directories generated/xxx/yyy/{32,64,default} of which default is identical to another.
> 
> Is there a simple and robust technique to detect the default model on a given platform?

My first thought would be to compile a program and see what size size_t was, but I don't know feasible that is from inside of make. There's probably some way to get make to tell you, but I'm not very well versed in make.

Timothee Cour has expressed interest in replacing all of the makefiles with D programs that do the build wth the idea that it would be easier to manage the various architectures and OSes that way. And if we did that, then all you'd have to do would be to check the size of size_t within the build script with size_t.sizeof.

- Jonathan M Davis
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coincidence, just sent out an email regarding this just today: http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.390.1369900211.13711.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com "D based build system to replace current makefile"

Yes, no point in making the makefile more complicated, doing it in D is much easier/cleaner.

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com>wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 23:30:12 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > I'm seeing this is phobos/posix.mak:
> >
> > MODEL:=default
> > ifneq (default,$(MODEL))
> >        MODEL_FLAG:=-m$(MODEL)
> > endif
> >
> > I find it unpleasant that we have directories generated/xxx/yyy/{32,64,default} of which default is identical to
> another.
> >
> > Is there a simple and robust technique to detect the default model on a given platform?
>
> My first thought would be to compile a program and see what size size_t
> was,
> but I don't know feasible that is from inside of make. There's probably
> some
> way to get make to tell you, but I'm not very well versed in make.
>
> Timothee Cour has expressed interest in replacing all of the makefiles
> with D
> programs that do the build wth the idea that it would be easier to manage
> the
> various architectures and OSes that way. And if we did that, then all you'd
> have to do would be to check the size of size_t within the build script
> with
> size_t.sizeof.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
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