Finding out the OS distribution name

[Randall Hopper]

M.-A. Lemburg:
 |I just uploaded a new version that now uses a function based API.
 |This avoids the long import time due the module scanning binaries
 |or spawning shells. The location is the same as above and running
 |the script still prints the above text to stdout except that
 |the libc check is now only done on Linux systems ... 

 |... do *BSD and others have the problem of two different libc's ?

No, not that can be linked with by the same set of objects (for FreeBSD).

FreeBSD 3.x and later is ELF.  Folks sometimes install AOUT libs for old
progs they can't or don't want to rebuild, but that's not a problem.  Build
ELF, it links with ELF; build AOUT, it links with AOUT.

Randall