Module for generic platform information: platform.py

Adrian Eyre a.eyre at optichrome.com
Wed Oct 27 09:22:32 EDT 1999


>> The canonical way is to check for the presence of the file:
>> /usr/include/minix/config.h

> When Marc originally proposed this module, I thought of doing the Linux
> detect this way, but after a bit of thinking one realises that it won't be
> generic enough.

You're probably right. This is the way that GNU configure does it.
I'll have a look to see what uname returns.

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