On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
(Note that pgsql-hackers is not in my To: header, as I'm not on the list and
cannot post.)
: So how do we determine that a system is elf? I don't see it in uname. Do
: we just run file(1) on the kernel and see if the string "ELF" shows up?
On NetBSD, the following will do it. This may even be platform independednt
if "grep -q" is replaced by "grep >/dev/null 2>&1".
if echo __ELF__ | ${CC} -E - | grep -q __ELF__; then
... a.out action ...
else
... ELF action ...
fi
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