[postgis-users] MapServer and PostGIS 1 RC1 and RC2

[strk at refractions.net]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:57:58PM +0100, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi, strk,
> 
> strk at refractions.net schrieb:
> 
> >>Strk, do you think it would be
> >>worth including the output of "uname" in postgis_full_version() so it is
> >>possible to distinguish between different platform builds?
> >
> > A postgis_lib_build_platform() maybe... but would uname be
> > available on all platforms ?
> 
> At least, there's a Posix uname() system call (man 3 uname), so it
> should be present on most unixoid platforms, at least on those that
> pretend to be posix conform. Maybe we would need some #ifdef to call
> some alternative code or a fake stub on Win32 and other platforms, if
> they do not provide uname().
> 
> I'm afraid we will get platform dependend code here, so I suggest that
> we create a default #ifdef branch that simply returns "unknown" (and
> maybe issues a compile-time warning) so we don't get any hard compiler
> errors on unknown platforms.
> 
> Have a nice day,

I think Mark was interested in "build" platform, not "run" platform.
We can't use a syscall for that (unless we use C code to produce the
.sql file)

--strk;

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