Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?
OxyOss wrote: 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, AIXetc 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 It seems you have to: 1. check /etc/issue 2. if Debian then also check /etc/apt/sources.list for the right distribution. Because my Sid partition has the same in /etc/issue and /etc/debian_version as Sarge. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?
OxyOss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 The problem is that that is almost certainly a conffile. It is the system logon message, and sysadmins are free to change it at will. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?
On 12/30/05, Matt England [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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). I don't know of an API method for this (it may be that there is none) but one way you can try to tell is by running: strings /lib/libc.so.6 | egrep ^Compiled by. On Debian sarge you see: Compiled by GNU CC version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12). and on RedHat 7.3: Compiled by GNU CC version 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113). Dunno about the rest of the distributions.
Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 15:10:23 -0800 David Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know of an API method for this (it may be that there is none) but one way you can try to tell is by running: strings /lib/libc.so.6 | egrep ^Compiled by. On Debian sarge you see: Compiled by GNU CC version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12). and on RedHat 7.3: Compiled by GNU CC version 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113). Dunno about the rest of the distributions. Good call. Here's what Ubuntu Breezy tells me: Compiled by GNU CC version 3.4.5 20050809 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.4-6ubuntu8). Cybe R. Wizard -- Linux -- It's computing, Jim, but not as we know it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt England wrote: 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). If /etc/debian_version exists, then it's debian, and the file contents should be the version number (which will be testing/unstable if the user is not running a stable release). - -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a---? C++(+++)$ UL P$ L+++ E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)- tv-(--) b- DI+ D++ G+++ e++ h(--)--- !r+++ y-+++ - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDtZwPqlk5sZw9W7kRAodaAKCmDbp3MM60oB69qolr9VeBB6lo9wCffM0l QKgZSD5q6eve9kbzfPR0zrA= =82bv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?
Matt writes: Thing is, I don't even know where to start. apt-get install automake autoconf autobook -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:43:59PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt England wrote: 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). If /etc/debian_version exists, then it's debian, and the file contents should be the version number (which will be testing/unstable if the user is not running a stable release). The situation is, i beleive, somewhat more complicated for Debian: If /etc/debian_version exists, then the system is very probably debian. The file contents are (if it IS debian) either the version number, which is placed there by the install scripts, or whatever the local sysadmin has decided to put there. This file IS available for local sysadmin use. Also, i believe, dist-upgrade from stable to testing/ unstable does not change the contents. (But I'm not willing to dist-upgrade just to make sure, i'm right, so check what i'm saying yourself if it really matters.) -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?
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, AIXetc 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]
