Checks your linux architecture. Code taken from rustup installation script, and emits an arch code that corresponds to what rustc expects. Useful for checing cross compilation arch.

archcheck.sh

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$KSH_VERSION" = 'Version JM 93t+ 2010-03-05' ]; then
    # The version of ksh93 that ships with many illumos systems does not
    # support the "local" extension.  Print a message rather than fail in
    # subtle ways later on:
    echo 'archcheck does not work with this ksh93 version; please try bash!' >&2
    exit 1
fi


set -u

main() {
    need_cmd uname

    get_architecture || return 1
    local _arch="$RETVAL"
    assert_nz "$_arch" "arch"
    say $_arch
}

assert_nz() {
    if [ -z "$1" ]; then err "assert_nz $2"; fi
}

check_proc() {
    # Check for /proc by looking for the /proc/self/exe link
    # This is only run on Linux
    if ! test -L /proc/self/exe ; then
        err "fatal: Unable to find /proc/self/exe.  Is /proc mounted?  Installation cannot proceed without /proc."
    fi
}

get_bitness() {
    need_cmd head
    # Architecture detection without dependencies beyond coreutils.
    # ELF files start out "\x7fELF", and the following byte is
    #   0x01 for 32-bit and
    #   0x02 for 64-bit.
    # The printf builtin on some shells like dash only supports octal
    # escape sequences, so we use those.
    local _current_exe_head
    _current_exe_head=$(head -c 5 /proc/self/exe )
    if [ "$_current_exe_head" = "$(printf '\177ELF\001')" ]; then
        echo 32
    elif [ "$_current_exe_head" = "$(printf '\177ELF\002')" ]; then
        echo 64
    else
        err "unknown platform bitness"
    fi
}

is_host_amd64_elf() {
    need_cmd head
    need_cmd tail
    # ELF e_machine detection without dependencies beyond coreutils.
    # Two-byte field at offset 0x12 indicates the CPU,
    # but we're interested in it being 0x3E to indicate amd64, or not that.
    local _current_exe_machine
    _current_exe_machine=$(head -c 19 /proc/self/exe | tail -c 1)
    [ "$_current_exe_machine" = "$(printf '\076')" ]
}

get_endianness() {
    local cputype=$1
    local suffix_eb=$2
    local suffix_el=$3

    # detect endianness without od/hexdump, like get_bitness() does.
    need_cmd head
    need_cmd tail

    local _current_exe_endianness
    _current_exe_endianness="$(head -c 6 /proc/self/exe | tail -c 1)"
    if [ "$_current_exe_endianness" = "$(printf '\001')" ]; then
        echo "${cputype}${suffix_el}"
    elif [ "$_current_exe_endianness" = "$(printf '\002')" ]; then
        echo "${cputype}${suffix_eb}"
    else
        err "unknown platform endianness"
    fi
}

get_architecture() {
    local _ostype _cputype _bitness _arch _clibtype
    _ostype="$(uname -s)"
    _cputype="$(uname -m)"
    _clibtype="gnu"

    if [ "$_ostype" = Linux ]; then
        if [ "$(uname -o)" = Android ]; then
            _ostype=Android
        fi
        if ldd --version 2>&1 | grep -q 'musl'; then
            _clibtype="musl"
        fi
    fi

    if [ "$_ostype" = Darwin ] && [ "$_cputype" = i386 ]; then
        # Darwin `uname -m` lies
        if sysctl hw.optional.x86_64 | grep -q ': 1'; then
            _cputype=x86_64
        fi
    fi

    if [ "$_ostype" = SunOS ]; then
        # Both Solaris and illumos presently announce as "SunOS" in "uname -s"
        # so use "uname -o" to disambiguate.  We use the full path to the
        # system uname in case the user has coreutils uname first in PATH,
        # which has historically sometimes printed the wrong value here.
        if [ "$(/usr/bin/uname -o)" = illumos ]; then
            _ostype=illumos
        fi

        # illumos systems have multi-arch userlands, and "uname -m" reports the
        # machine hardware name; e.g., "i86pc" on both 32- and 64-bit x86
        # systems.  Check for the native (widest) instruction set on the
        # running kernel:
        if [ "$_cputype" = i86pc ]; then
            _cputype="$(isainfo -n)"
        fi
    fi

    case "$_ostype" in

        Android)
            _ostype=linux-android
            ;;

        Linux)
            check_proc
            _ostype=unknown-linux-$_clibtype
            _bitness=$(get_bitness)
            ;;

        FreeBSD)
            _ostype=unknown-freebsd
            ;;

        NetBSD)
            _ostype=unknown-netbsd
            ;;

        DragonFly)
            _ostype=unknown-dragonfly
            ;;

        Darwin)
            _ostype=apple-darwin
            ;;

        illumos)
            _ostype=unknown-illumos
            ;;

        MINGW* | MSYS* | CYGWIN* | Windows_NT)
            _ostype=pc-windows-gnu
            ;;

        *)
            err "unrecognized OS type: $_ostype"
            ;;

    esac

    case "$_cputype" in

        i386 | i486 | i686 | i786 | x86)
            _cputype=i686
            ;;

        xscale | arm)
            _cputype=arm
            if [ "$_ostype" = "linux-android" ]; then
                _ostype=linux-androideabi
            fi
            ;;

        armv6l)
            _cputype=arm
            if [ "$_ostype" = "linux-android" ]; then
                _ostype=linux-androideabi
            else
                _ostype="${_ostype}eabihf"
            fi
            ;;

        armv7l | armv8l)
            _cputype=armv7
            if [ "$_ostype" = "linux-android" ]; then
                _ostype=linux-androideabi
            else
                _ostype="${_ostype}eabihf"
            fi
            ;;

        aarch64 | arm64)
            _cputype=aarch64
            ;;

        x86_64 | x86-64 | x64 | amd64)
            _cputype=x86_64
            ;;

        mips)
            _cputype=$(get_endianness mips '' el)
            ;;

        mips64)
            if [ "$_bitness" -eq 64 ]; then
                # only n64 ABI is supported for now
                _ostype="${_ostype}abi64"
                _cputype=$(get_endianness mips64 '' el)
            fi
            ;;

        ppc)
            _cputype=powerpc
            ;;

        ppc64)
            _cputype=powerpc64
            ;;

        ppc64le)
            _cputype=powerpc64le
            ;;

        s390x)
            _cputype=s390x
            ;;
        riscv64)
            _cputype=riscv64gc
            ;;
        *)
            err "unknown CPU type: $_cputype"

    esac

    # Detect 64-bit linux with 32-bit userland
    if [ "${_ostype}" = unknown-linux-gnu ] && [ "${_bitness}" -eq 32 ]; then
        case $_cputype in
            x86_64)
                if [ -n "${RUSTUP_CPUTYPE:-}" ]; then
                    _cputype="$RUSTUP_CPUTYPE"
                else {
                    # 32-bit executable for amd64 = x32
                    if is_host_amd64_elf; then {
                         echo "This host is running an x32 userland; as it stands, x32 support is poor," 1>&2
                         echo "and there isn't a native toolchain -- you will have to install" 1>&2
                         echo "multiarch compatibility with i686 and/or amd64, then select one" 1>&2
                         echo "by re-running this script with the RUSTUP_CPUTYPE environment variable" 1>&2
                         echo "set to i686 or x86_64, respectively." 1>&2
                         echo 1>&2
                         echo "You will be able to add an x32 target after installation by running" 1>&2
                         echo "  rustup target add x86_64-unknown-linux-gnux32" 1>&2
                         exit 1
                    }; else
                        _cputype=i686
                    fi
                }; fi
                ;;
            mips64)
                _cputype=$(get_endianness mips '' el)
                ;;
            powerpc64)
                _cputype=powerpc
                ;;
            aarch64)
                _cputype=armv7
                if [ "$_ostype" = "linux-android" ]; then
                    _ostype=linux-androideabi
                else
                    _ostype="${_ostype}eabihf"
                fi
                ;;
            riscv64gc)
                err "riscv64 with 32-bit userland unsupported"
                ;;
        esac
    fi

    # Detect armv7 but without the CPU features Rust needs in that build,
    # and fall back to arm.
    # See https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup.rs/issues/587.
    if [ "$_ostype" = "unknown-linux-gnueabihf" ] && [ "$_cputype" = armv7 ]; then
        if ensure grep '^Features' /proc/cpuinfo | grep -q -v neon; then
            # At least one processor does not have NEON.
            _cputype=arm
        fi
    fi

    _arch="${_cputype}-${_ostype}"

    RETVAL="$_arch"
}

say() {
    printf 'archcheck: %s\n' "$1"
}

err() {
    say "$1" >&2
    exit 1
}

need_cmd() {
    if ! check_cmd "$1"; then
        err "need '$1' (command not found)"
    fi
}

check_cmd() {
    command -v "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1
}

# Run a command that should never fail. If the command fails execution
# will immediately terminate with an error showing the failing
# command.
ensure() {
    if ! "$@"; then err "command failed: $*"; fi
}

main "$@" || exit 1