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-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/util.py7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 36c4a68..416deec 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import re
import imp
import sys
import string
-import platform
from distutils.errors import DistutilsPlatformError
from distutils.dep_util import newer
from distutils.spawn import spawn
@@ -78,7 +77,11 @@ def get_platform ():
if release[0] >= "5": # SunOS 5 == Solaris 2
osname = "solaris"
release = "%d.%s" % (int(release[0]) - 3, release[2:])
- machine += ".%s" % platform.architecture()[0]
+ # We can't use "platform.architecture()[0]" because a
+ # bootstrap problem. We use a dict to get an error
+ # if some suspicious happens.
+ bitness = {2147483647:"32bit", 9223372036854775807:"64bit"}
+ machine += ".%s" % bitness[sys.maxint]
# fall through to standard osname-release-machine representation
elif osname[:4] == "irix": # could be "irix64"!
return "%s-%s" % (osname, release)