Re: [MiNT] uname - was sending diffs to Apache ...

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

Hi Guido!

Seems you missed my post about this, because it is _exactly_ what I've
said! ,-)))

> to be confusion about the correct output of "uname -s".  So far I have
> come across three different versions:
> 
> 	(a) MiNT
> 	(b) mint
> 	(c) FreeMiNT
> 
> Background information: The "uname" program (at least the GNU version
> of it) internally calls the MiNTlib function "uname()" and as far as 

which comes from uname.c in the mintlib sources ;-)

> I can see it, this function has returned "MiNT" for ages now (and
> "TOS" for non-MiNT systems).  This means, if you build and
> install an update of the GNU shell utilities, you will always end up
> with an uname that returns "MiNT" unless the MiNTlib was 
> modified.

Since Atari/JTS is no longer involved, I submit that we use MiNT.

> Remains the problem with the lowercase "mint".  IMHO this is incompatible
> with most past versions of "uname" and it should be removed.

IMHO, the idea is that uname should return "MiNT" but Makefile
and Configure or GuessOS should use "mint" (ie: make mint).

> The thing is a little bit urgent:  Many GNU software packages use a 
> standard script called config.guess (which calls uname) to determine
> the host system type. 

...which is the problem I encountered while trying to port Apache,
because my version of uname replies something else than what Jan Paul's
patched GuessOS expects...

> A related problem: At least some kernel versions contained a
> uname program (is it still included in the kernel?).  I think
> this should be removed.  A working MiNT system is based on
> GNU utilities.  I don't think that it is a good idea then if the
> kernel and the GNU shell utilities install concurrent versions
> of uname.  

I completely agree! ;-)))

See my previous post on what I advocate as uname replies to all
options... :)

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