On Monday 14 February 2005 18:15, Laur Ivan wrote:

Hi Peter,

afaik SuSE distros have a file "/etc/SuSE-release", which contains a short summary (name, version).

Thanks. This is what I ended up using.. (I knew about this files existence, but was being thick headed) See: http://www.aefirion.org/projects/aefirion/file/trunk/zaptel/scripts/Makefile For more info about Aefirion see: http://www.aefirion.org/ Thanks everyone -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc

On Monday 14 February 2005 11:20 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Peter,

On Monday 14 February 2005 08:08, Peter Nixon wrote:

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Hi Guys

Does anyone know of a reliable way to detect if a system is running SUSE Linux or not from a Makefile?

Perhaps you could use the existence of the file /etc/SuSE-release? /etc/issue also contains the release information.

-- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

The Monday 2005-02-14 at 12:12 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

grep -i suse /proc/version

Mmmm. cer@nimrodel:~> grep -i suse /proc/version Linux version 2.6.5-7.145-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 Thu Jan 27 09:19:29 UTC 2005 It yields the complete line. Anyway, the term "SuSE" refers to the compiler version, I think, not the system version. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson