On 6/3/2013 17:52, Dan Kegel wrote:
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Warren Young wrote:
Cygwin != Linux
/proc/cpuinfo begs to differ :-)
$ grep -i linux /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l
0
Wrong test. I think you were looking for
$ test -f /proc/cpuinfo && echo "looks like linux"
See also http://www.sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q2/msg00054.html
$ test -f /etc/termcap && echo "looks like BSD"
Any single test is likely to confuse software that needs to be portable.
This is why, 2 decades ago, the creators of Autoconf popularized the
practice of testing for individual needed features, not whole platforms.
(You see this in the long output from a "configure" script. It doesn't
just say "looks like Linux".)
Cygwin does conform most closely to Linux, but if you write softwares
that blindly assumes Cygwin *is* Linux, you're likely to get surprised
at some point.
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