Hi,
I'm about to start adding support for platform-specific stuff in the
PEAR installer (prebuilt extensions, .bat/.cmd scripts for windows,
shell scripts for unix and so on). To do this I need a standard way of
describing the system PHP runs on. I guess the important bits of
information are:
* CPU (i386, usparc etc.)
* Operating System (windows, linux, solaris etc.)
* Extra information such as OS version or libc version
The general format could be "CPU-OS[-EXTRA]", for example:
"i386-windows-nt" "nt" for nt/2k/xp, "9x" for 95/98/me
"i386-linux-glibc21" Which glibc versions are incompatible? Anyone?
"usparc3-solaris"
"powerpc-macos-x" Is there a need to distinguish between different
MacOS X revisions?
"powerpc-aix-4.3"
"hppa-hpux-10"
"mips-irix-6.4"
"m68k-linux-amiga" it never dies, does it?
The trickiest part here seems to be detecting libc version on Linux. Or
is it enough to try reading symlinks in /lib?
Sterling, do you still have the code from your old OS class lying
around?
- Stig
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