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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 09:51:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: Is this supposed to work this way?
From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba AT gmail DOT com>
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Hi all!

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Warren Young  wrote:
> On 4/3/2012 7:35 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
(snip)

May I suggest a gold star for this explanation  ?

Csaba
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