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Re: uname -s question
- To: Cygwin-Developers <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: uname -s question
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:01:38 -0500
- References: <20010222120933.E449@dothill.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:09:33PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Does anyone use the information, that starts with the "_" in "uname -s"?
>For example on NT 4.0, I'm referring to the "_NT-4.0".
>
>My only "use" is to excise it during tests for Cygwin in things like
>the following:
>
> autoconf (i.e. sh) scripts
> bash scripts
> makefiles
> python scripts
>
>It is probably too late and quite naive to ask but... Can this
>information be removed to facilitate testing for Cygwin?
I don't see why this is necessary. It comes up repeatedly and the
extremely simple solution is to match on CYGWIN*. Many other systems
use this convention. For instance, look at gdb's configure.in or
configure.tgt script. There is a 'hpux*' and a 'solaris*'.
The information *could* potentially be important. Cygwin running on
NT is not the same thing as Cygwin running on 95.
cgf