# from David Cantrell
# on Thursday 09 September 2010 23:32:
>> `$binary --version` =~ /(gnu|free software foundation)/i
>>
>> I'm thinking something like ExtUtils::CheckForGNUbinary.
>
>Scrap that. It should be more along the lines of checking for
>capabilities rather than merely for GNU-ness, with GNU-ness being just
>one of many capabilities. For example, GNU tar may *or may not*
> support the -j flag, depending on whether bzip2 support is available.
Nobody expects Devel::BinaryInquisition
--Eric
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