Re: Detecting versions of Linux

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From: Dimitri Maziuk
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:00

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Steve Merrifield wrote:
> 
> chris mcdonald (chris@cs.uwa.oz.au) wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> : As I'm using the dynamic loading routines, and need to discern between
> : a.out and ELF, can anyone suggest a similar, simple scheme so that I may
> : use either  Makefile.linuxaout or Makefile.linuxelf ?
> 
> How about using:        file /usr/bin/gcc       and greping ELF or QMAGIC ?

Yeah, except that gcc's not the only compiler out there (in theory, at
least  :)

`file $CC | grep ELF` would be better.
-- 
Dimitri
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