[openssl-dev] MacOS defaults?

[Ben Laurie]

On 6 March 2016 at 23:05, Andy Polyakov <appro at openssl.org> wrote:
>>> Hmm. So why do I see this on my macbook?
>>>
>>> $ arch
>>> i386
>>
>> Try "uname -m"
>
> This is not reliable. Because it must have changed recently, it used to
> be i386 even on 64-bit systems. sysctl -n hw.optional.x86_64 is the way
> to go, it's right there in ./config...

Sure, and that is used to decide whether to offer the 64 bit version.
But its not helping me on what should be default.