Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:43:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Determining FreeBSD versions Message-ID: <199707011243.OAA14341@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: David Dawes's message of Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:03:53 %2B1000 References: <19970701190353.50830@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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> > Is there a better way to reliably distinguish between versions, > particularly the vintage of one of the "-STABLE" versions? The imake > config allows these version parameters to be manually overriden, and > that's what I'm doing for now. It would be good if the auto-detect > mechanism could be made to work in this case though. I don't mind so > much about -CURRENT, since that's known to be more of a moving target. /usr/include/osreldate.h should be fairly easy to parse, and give very good data, especially after the format was fixed :) Eivind.
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