uname(1) on UnixWare (Solaris)
Patrik Stridvall
ps at leissner.se
Wed Jun 6 06:17:55 CDT 2001
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:51:19PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > Maybe it was not your intention but I was afraid that we
> would end up
> > with something like:
> > "checking whether we can build a `uname` dll..."
> > and then a few lines down:
> > "checking whether we can build a `uname` dll..."
> >
> > The problem is then you don't know exactly where the
> message comes
> > from.
>
> Sorry but I don't catch what you mean quite well. It's obvious which
> message is printed on the screen, isn't it?
Yes, but this means that the text no longer describes what it is
trying to check. If somebody runs it on a OS called Foo it might trick
the him/her into thinking that we know about and have added special
handling for OS Foo, which we haven't.
> What do you think about replacing "Linux dll" with "GNU style
> ELF dll"?
Acceptable, but it is not my decision.
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