[csw-maintainers] Determining the architecture of a binary

[James Lee]

On 13/01/10, 10:37:53, Maciej "(Matchek)" Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org>
wrote regarding [csw-maintainers] Determining the architecture of a 
binary:

> I'd like to write a new check, to make sure that the actual binaries
> inside a package match the architecture declared in the pkginfo file.
> Unfortunately, the file command's output is not as reliable as I'd
> like it to.  For instance, on build8s, it can tell when a binary is
> i386, but it doesn't say the same about an amd64 binary.

> maciej at build8s [build8s]:~ > file
>
~maciej/src/opencsw/pkg/mysql5/branches/mysql-5.0.x/work/solaris8-i386/i
ns
tall-isa-i386/opt/csw/mysql5/bin/mysql
> | cut -d: -f2
>         ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1, dynamically linked,
stripped
> maciej at build8s [build8s]:~ > file
>
~maciej/src/opencsw/pkg/mysql5/branches/mysql-5.0.x/work/solaris8-i386/i
ns
tall-isa-amd64/opt/csw/mysql5/bin/amd64/mysql
> | cut -d: -f2
>         ELF 64-bit LSB executable Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped



"LSB" goes with i386 and "MSB" goes with sparc.  I guess it stands for
least and most significant bit for the endian.

If it's 64 bit and not sparc then what else is it?



James.