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Simon McVittie authored
We can make a pretty good guess at what $PLATFORM will be: on many
CPU architectures, there is one well-known name for the architecture,
and $PLATFORM always takes that value. We might as well try it, even
on otherwise unknown architectures - the worst that can happen is that
our guess was wrong.

Known exceptions include:

* ARM 32-bit (Debian's porterboxes are v7l or v8l)
* i386 (Meson calls it x86, but $PLATFORM can be i386, i486, i586 or i686)
* mips family (Debian's porterboxes are octeon2 or octeon3)
* PowerPC (Debian's porterbox is power8)
* s390x (Debian's porterbox is z900)
* x86_64 ($PLATFORM can sometimes be haswell or xeon_phi)

of which we are unlikely to care about the non-x86 cases in practice.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
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