Francesco Zappa Nardelli <Francesco.Zappa.Nardelli@xxxxxx> writes: > Hello. > > I am a novice user of autoconf, and I am sorry if my question is > really silly. > > I am looking for a way to tell configure that the makefile it > eventually generates should include the file "linux.mak" if we are > building the software on Linux, and "macosx.mak" if we are building on > Darwin. You should say "GNU/Linux". > How can I reliably detect the operating system of the machine the > software is built on? from the shell: uname -a will do what you want. So you could setup a make variable with that in: ISGNU:=$(shell uname -a | grep -i gnu) However, if you check the autoconf macro archive you might be able to find an AC macro to do it: http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/ -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
