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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 13:58:42 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Ribust shell-based test for DJGPP?
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Hello.

Tim Van Holder wrote:
> Since config.guess uses it, I suppose I could indeed also use 'uname',
> testing for 'pc' as machine and 'MS-DOS' as OS. But they seem slightly
> to generic (it is feasible some other (future) environment would use the
> same return values, but it's much less likely that som other environment
> uses both DJDIR, DJGPP and the /dev/env/ system).

FYI I remember that Laurynas committed a bunch of patches a while ago to
do CPU detection. 'uname' uses this to return i386, etc. for the
processor. Looking at a config.guess I got recently from GNU CVS, I see
that it matches on 'i?86' and '*DOS' or 'pc' (ignoring OS). It may be that
shellutils 2.0 port has a uname with this support - I forget now and I
don't use 2.0.

I agree going from *DOS to DJGPP is a big jump.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe
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