2 # $Cambridge: exim/src/scripts/os-type,v 1.3 2005/04/06 10:53:47 ph10 Exp $
4 # Shell script to determine the operating system type. Some of the heuristics
5 # herein have accumulated over the years and may not strictly be needed now,
6 # but they are left in under the principle of "If it ain't broke, don't fix
9 # For some OS there are two variants: a full name, which is used for the
10 # build directory, and a generic name, which is used to identify the OS-
11 # specific scripts, and which can be the same for different versions of
12 # the OS. Solaris 2 is one such OS. The option -generic specifies the
13 # latter type of output.
15 # If EXIM_OSTYPE is set, use it. This allows a manual override.
17 case "$EXIM_OSTYPE" in ?*) os="$EXIM_OSTYPE";; esac
19 # Otherwise, try to get a value from the uname command. Use an explicit
20 # option just in case there are any systems where -s is not the default.
22 case "$os" in '') os=`uname -s`;; esac
24 # Identify Glibc systems under different names.
26 case "$os" in GNU) os=GNU;; esac
27 case "$os" in GNU/*|Linux) os=Linux;; esac
29 # It is believed that all systems respond to uname -s, but just in case
30 # there is one that doesn't, use the shell's $OSTYPE variable. It is known
31 # to be unhelpful for some systems (under IRIX is it "irix" and under BSDI
32 # 3.0 it may be "386BSD") but those systems respond to uname -s, so this
35 case "$os" in '') os="$OSTYPE";; esac
37 # Failed to find OS type.
41 echo "*** Failed to determine the operating system type." 1>&2
47 # Clean out gash characters
49 os=`echo $os | sed 's,[^-+_.a-zA-Z0-9],,g'`
51 # A value has been obtained for the os. Some massaging may be needed in
52 # some cases to get a uniform set of values. In earlier versions of this
53 # script, $OSTYPE was looked at before uname -s, and various shells set it
54 # to things that are subtly different. It is possible that some of this may
55 # no longer be needed.
65 freebsd*) os=FreeBSD;;
71 IRIX) version=`uname -r`
74 6.5) version=`uname -R | awk '{print $NF}'`
75 version=`echo $version | sed 's,[^-+_a-zA-Z0-9],,g'`
79 HI-OSF1-MJ) os=HI-OSF;;
86 openbsd*) os=OpenBSD;;
91 UnixWare) os=Unixware7;;
96 # In the case of SunOS we need to distinguish between SunOS4 and Solaris (aka
97 # SunOS5); in the case of BSDI we need to distinguish between versions 3 and 4;
98 # in the case of HP-UX we need to distinguish between version 9 and later.
101 SunOS) case `uname -r` in
106 BSDI) case `uname -r` in
108 4.2*) os="${os}4.2";;
112 HP-UX) case `uname -r` in
113 A.09*) os="${os}-9";;
117 # Need to distinguish Solaris from the version on the HAL (64bit sparc,
118 # CC=hcc -DV7). Also need to distinguish different versions of the OS
119 # for building different binaries.
122 SunOS5) case `uname -m` in
123 sun4H) os="${os}-hal";;
124 *) os="${os}-`uname -r`";;
128 # In the case of Linux we need to distinguish which libc is used.
129 # This is more cautious than it needs to be. In practice libc5 will always
130 # be a symlink, and libc6 will always be a linker control file, but it's
131 # easy enough to do a better check, and check the symlink destination or the
132 # control file contents and make sure.
134 Linux) if [ -L /usr/lib/libc.so ]; then
135 if [ x"$(file /usr/lib/libc.so | grep "libc.so.5")"x != xx ]; then
139 if grep -q libc.so.5 /usr/lib/libc.so; then
145 # In the case of NetBSD we need to distinguish between a.out, ELF
146 # and COFF binary formats. However, a.out and COFF are the same
147 # for our purposes, so both of them are defined as "a.out".
148 # Todd Vierling of Wasabi Systems reported that NetBSD/sh3 (the
149 # only NetBSD port that uses COFF binary format) will switch to
152 NetBSD) if echo __ELF__ | ${CC-cc} -E - | grep -q __ELF__ ; then
160 # If a generic OS name is requested, some further massaging is needed
163 if [ "$1" = '-generic' ]; then
171 # OK, the script seems to have worked. Pass the value back.