Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:01:24 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>
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To: Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Is this supposed to work this way?
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Greetings, Warren Young!

>> what is the standard way of detecting OS type?
>> uname -o
>> ?

> The wise try not to do that at all.

> Instead, take in a little wisdom from the people who created autoconf, a 
> piece of software that's been uncommonly successful[*] by FOSS 
> standards: don't test for platforms, test for features.

Well, then, following your wisdom, I have to clog every line of my script with
"... || exit" or an equivalent.

Because even an attempt to continue execution, if any error occured, would be
disastrous to the calling program.
Solution is to "set -e" and have script bail out at any problem, but if I try
autoconf approach and blindly run whatever I feel appropriate, hoping for the
best and preparing for worst, I won't have such option.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 04.04.2012, <12:57>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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