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From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
Cc: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Freepascal
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Peter Pentchev wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:51:12PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > Marco van de Voort wrote:
> >
> > > The actual porting is now nearly finished, so I can start creating a
> > > port.
> > >
> > > One of the things I still need is the recommended way to tell the
> > > difference between Linux and FreeBSD in a makefile. (for
> > > autosettings that can be overruled), preferably without using external
> > > programs except the binutils package.
> > >
> > > A unique way to tell FreeBSD apart from all other *nix platforms
> > > would even be better :-)
> >
> > "uname -s"?
> >
> > -Maxim
>
> ..which brings up a question.
>
> Since make processes ifdef's before anything else in the Makefile,
> one cannot assign `uname -s` to a variable, and then test against this;
> the shell escape shall be processed *after* the includes, and the test
> will inevitably fail.
>
> Is there a way around this?  Is there a Makefile-only way to test
> OS/platform/whatever, and set variables accordingly?

I'm not sure what you are talking about, but what wrong with the following:

OSNAME!= uname -s

.if ${OSNAME} == "FreeBSD"
blabla
.else
...
.endif

-Maxim




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