Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 23:15:48 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Determining FreeBSD versions Message-ID: <19970701231548.62722@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707011243.OAA14341@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 02:43:43PM %2B0200 References: <19970701190353.50830@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <199707011243.OAA14341@bitbox.follo.net>
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On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 02:43:43PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: >> >> 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 :) OK, I think that will do what I need. David
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