On Wed, 28 May 2008 19:57:58 -0400
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So what will you tell them that you cannot figure out by
a proper
configure script automatically?
I do not know how to automatically and generically figure
out the
correct string, e.g. "debian", "macosxppc", "fedora9"
,etc. It seems
that this would take an expert in each system to write
system-specific
code to probe the configuration for each system.
I certainly don't know anything about OSes. But it seems
to me that there is a dumb way. If each supported OS
stanza includes the expert system-specific code to verify
(not probing to find what the OS is, but assuming the OS
is the one in the stanza, verify it -- only a yes or no
answer) that the OS is the right one, then by a process of
elimination, a loop going through all the OSes stanzas
until a match is found(or not found) should solve the
problem.
William
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