On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 13:33 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 09/29/2012 01:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes:
> >> The trouble with uname -s is that its output is a bit variable. I think
> >> this will work:
> >> testhost=`uname -a | sed 's/.* //'`
> > What do you mean by "a bit variable"?
>
> On one of my machines uname -s return MINGW32_NT5.1
>
> On another it says MINGW32_NT6.1
You could do
case $testhost in
MINGW*) something;;
Or call config.guess, which exists more or less for this purpose.
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