Matt England wrote: > In my cross-platform-programming quests, I'm looking for ways to > determine via my Makefiles which system/platform said build process is > running on, so I can automatically pull in the correct libraries, build > to the correct target directories, use the correct platform-specific > code, etc. > > Back in the "old days" for me (mid 1990s), the Unix builds I was making > were mostly Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, Digital-Unix, AIX....etc etc. In such > cases, 'uname -rs' all had distinctly different outputs. > > Now, 'uname -rs' (and the newer 'uname -o') all say "Linux" or > "GNU/Linux" for all the Linux distributions. > > So I'm left with figuring out much harder ways to tell system revs > apart. I'm guessing I'm going to have to make an application which does > nothing but evaluate a system and report it's variant (Redhat vs SuSE > vs. Debian) and revision (Debian Woody/3.0, Sarge/3.1, etc). > > Thing is, I don't even know where to start. Will some uname-based > analysis work by itself? Haven't seen anything yet that will > distinguish between the different Linux distros. I suspect there will > be other cmds/APIs I can use to do stuff. I'm looking for suggestions. > > -Matt > > G'day
Have you tried to use the contents of /etc/issue ? Typically for RedHat/Fedora this will have the release in it, and (for Sarge at least) this is also the case for Debian. I've done a dist-upgrade on this box and the file shows the correct version number at least... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l Regards, Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
