On 15 Jan 2010, at 03:25, Heiko Przybyl wrote:

> On Jan 15, 2010, at 2:50 AM, Johan Hattne wrote:
> 
>> The problem with "invisible" 64 bit profiles went away after reemerging all the eselect stuff (but I still don't understand why "arch=$(arch)" gives x64-macos in the profile.eselect module, while "arch" on the command line gives i386)?
> 
> That's normal for MacOS. Because 'arch - print machine hardware name (same as uname -m)' prints the architecture the machine is running on, which is in your case a 32bit kernel and thus i386. If you'd run the 64bit-kernel you would have something like x86_64 as result. That's the disadvantage(?) of being able to run 64bit applications with a 32bit kernel ;)

That's a different issue.  What I failed to understand is why this

  arch=$(arch)
  echo "-->${arch}<--" > /dev/stderr

i.e. just inserting an echo into the find_targets() function of usr/share/eselect/modules/profile.eselect prints

  -->x64-macos<--

to stderr (which is not what I would have expected usr/bin/arch to output under any circumstances).  In the meantime, I've found out.

// Cheers; Johan