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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname
To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steve Kargl)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:30:57 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: crossd@cs.rpi.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@mt.sri.com,
        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199811091947.LAA11148@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> from "Steve Kargl" at Nov 9, 98 11:47:56 am
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> Here is the nice little uname test from the vendor's install script:
> 
> # what type of target?
> if test -x /usr/bin/uname ; then
>         uname=/usr/bin/uname
> elif test -x /bin/uname ; then
>         uname=/bin/uname
> else
>         # Never seen it anywhere but /bin or /usr/bin, so hopefully it's
>         # in $PATH already.
>         type uname > /dev/null 2>&1
>         if test $? -ne 0 ; then
>                 echo "install: uname not found in \$PATH environment variable"
>                 quit
>         else
>                 uname=uname
>         fi
> fi

Any you don't path this as part of the "port" you made for the
compiler?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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