On 12/30/05, Matt England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'm left with figuring out much harder ways to tell system revs > apart. I'm guessing I'm going to have to make an application which does > nothing but evaluate a system and report it's variant (Redhat vs SuSE vs. > Debian) and revision (Debian Woody/3.0, Sarge/3.1, etc).
I don't know of an API method for this (it may be that there is none) but one way you can try to tell is by running: strings /lib/libc.so.6 | egrep "^Compiled by". On Debian sarge you see: Compiled by GNU CC version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12). and on RedHat 7.3: Compiled by GNU CC version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113). Dunno about the rest of the distributions.
