Test for redhatness (when building RPM's)

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 12:15 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> > Philip Prindeville wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to tweak a package so that it autodetects when it's being
> >> built under Redhat/Fedora (et al) and does the right thing.
> >>
> >> Is there a simple and foolproof test for this?
> >
> >
> > How about something like this:
> >
> > %define redhat %(/bin/grep "^Red Hat " /etc/redhat-release &> 
> > /dev/null && echo 1 || echo 0)
> > %define fedora %(/bin/grep "^Fedora " /etc/redhat-release &> /dev/null 
> > && echo 1 || echo 0)
> >
> > ...
> >
> > %if %{redhat}
> > echo Building on RedHat
> > %else
> > echo Not building on RedHat
> > %endif
> >
> > %if %{fedora}
> > echo Building on Fedora
> > %else
> > echo Not building on Fedora
> > %endif
> >
> > %if %{redhat} || %{fedora}
> > echo Building on RedHat or Fedora
> > %else
> > echo Not building on RedHat or Fedora
> > %endif
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> 
> Sorry, I wasn't very clear.
> 
> The test needs to be in the Makefile, not in the RPM spec file.
> 
> What I decided on was:
> 
> REDHAT := $(shell test -f /etc/redhat-release && echo yes)
> 
> ...
> 
> ifeq ($(REDHAT),yes)
>   ...
> endif
> 
> as the solution.

That may not be reliable. Mandriva will certainly be detected as a
redhat distribution with this test; not sure about SuSE.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>