Re: Qs: -pthread, make builds warns be errors, etc

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 07:57 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> * Matt England wrote on Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:27:15AM CEST:
> > 

> > * How can I determine diff Linux systems?
> 
> Honestly: I don't know. 
IMO, the actual question is not "how?", but "what for?".

A package should not rely on any particular version of something, but be
detecting features a system provides and derive conclusion from this.

> If you're going to try to enumerate them, I'd
> advise against them. 
Agreed. Checking for OS versions isn't advisable.

Ralf