Re: gmake detection of which version of RH

[Colin S. Miller]

deodiaus wrote:
> How does one find out which version of RH is installed on a particular
> machine?
>
> I am trying to detect the version of RH on which future we will be doing a
> build.
> I can't believe that this is not more standardized, and for the last 30
> years everyone has been writting something like this!
> I do this by looking at uname -r and associating the kernal with that
> version!
> Will this work?  I see one problem it that if the sys op updated the kernal,
> this could potentially break

You could also parse the /etc/redhat-release file; this gives the 'box 
label' name of the redhat release.

On debian the file is /etc/debian_version
I assume that other distros have similar files.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller