Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: Output of uname -s Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:29:05 -0500 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <4327A063.1020602@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) In-Reply-To: <4327A063.1020602@byu.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Larry Finger on 9/13/2005 9:25 PM: > >>I know that 'uname -s' yields 'CYGWIN_NT-5.1' on Windows XP, but I am >>writing a multi-platform makefile and need to find a method that will >>work for all versions of Windows. What is the result of uname -s for >>Windows 9X, Me, NT and 2K? > > > If you don't care about which version of Windows, look at config.guess, > which just compares against CYGWIN*. And if you do care, all > possible strings are available by reading the source code, in uname.cc and > wincap.cc. > Thanks. I got the answer from wincap.cc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/