Subject: Re: i386: identifying elf systems
To: Peter Cooper <comrade@obverse.com.au>
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/23/2000 23:38:37
Thus spake Peter Cooper
> What is the canonical way of identifying whether 
> a NetBSD system is primarily an elf or a.out 
> system? Release numbers don't seem to be the way 
> to go, due to the staged deployment across 
> different ports.

if echo __ELF__ | ${CC} -E - | grep -q __ELF__
then echo "Not ELF"
else echo "It is an ELF system"
fi

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