[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 193043] [CMake][WTF] Finesse i386 architecture detection

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193043

--- Comment #5 from Jim Mason <jmason at ibinx.com> ---
(In reply to Alexey Proskuryakov from comment #4)
> How will we know in the future that this hack can be removed? Can you leave
> any pointers at all?

There is no intention that this should ever be removed; it is necessary because of the semantics of uname -p:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uname

As can be observed from the link above, many operating systems return 'i386' for `uname -p` although they are in fact 64-bit.  For correct operation, it must be checked in this case whether the target is actually 32- or 64-bits.  See for example:

    https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-March/013134.html

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