Matthew Bauer
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gnu-config standardized on aarch64 for machine name so host_cpu part of $system will always be aarch64. That means system will be aarch64-darwin too. uname however could report either “aarch64” (if gnu coreutils) or “arm64” (if apple’s uname). We should support both for compatiblity here.
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