On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Thilo Manske wrote:

: if echo __ELF__ | ${CC} -E - | grep -q __ELF__; then
:   # ELF
: else
:   # a.out
: fi
: 
: This is not my idea, it's from the patches for apache in the package tree.

It's actually backwards.  If the "grep -q" returns true, it's an a.out
system (since cpp did *not* replace __ELF__ with 1).

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