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doragasu

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Registered: 2012-03-03

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Why "uname -i" returns "unknown"?

Shouldn't it return x68_64 on my 64-bit install?

Xilinx Vivado didn't install because of this. I modified the install script to remove this check and it's now installing, but I'm wondering if returning "unknown" to "uname -i" is correct.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: Why "uname -i" returns "unknown"?

See coreutils mailing list, old post.

Gentoo patches this, to get better output - see 003_all_coreutils-gentoo-uname.patch in coreutils-8.24-patches-1.1.tar.xz

With Gentoo's patch, I get:

# uname -i
GenuineIntel

Last edited by brebs (2015-11-07 14:05:16)

doragasu

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Registered: 2012-03-03

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Re: Why "uname -i" returns "unknown"?

Xilinx Vivado install script expects to find "x86_64", otherwise it aborts installation (because only 64 bit Linux is supported). As 64-bit CentOS, RedHat, SuSE and Ubuntu are supported by this software package, I suppose them all return the expected string when "uname -i" is called.

Anyway, fortunately it was just a matter of removing this check from the install script. It has installed and once I did the same library symlink trick that you have to do with Xilinx ISE, it looks like it's working nicely.

paulkerry

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2014-10-02

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Re: Why "uname -i" returns "unknown"?

Shouldn't it return x68_64 on my 64-bit install?

Think you mean "x86_64" and it more than likely should be...

# uname -m
x86_64