Read version and distro?

[Nancy Sollars]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Buettner" <kev@illusions.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Read version and distro?


> On Nov 15,  5:24pm, Nancy Sollars wrote:
>
> > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Nov 15,  4:43pm, Patrick Fleming EA wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > [pat@gw-fw realty]$ cat /proc/version
> > > > > Linux version 2.4.2-2 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version
2.96
> > > > > 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 18:47:21 EDT
2001
> > >               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > lol i think its wrong for the distro to be listed in /proc like that its
> > like redhat are claiming its their kernel i think Linus himself had
> > something similar to say about it.
>
> No, I think you misunderstand the meaning of that string.  It is
> referring to the version of gcc used to compile the kernel.  This is
> very important because Red Hat (and probably other distributors too)
> end up distributing a compiler which is *not* an officially released
> FSF version.  Red Hat caught a lot of flack when they first released

I think youl find that only redhat does this .... hence the screw up with
7.0

> gcc-2.96 because they were releasing a gcc snapshot that hadn't been
> officially released by the FSF.  In order to (hopefully) mitigate
> confusion over the version of the tool being used, Red Hat now puts
> quite a lot in the version string of the compiler.
>
> E.g, typing ``gcc -v'' on my Red Hat Linux 7.2 machine shows:
>
>     [kev@mesquite kev]$ gcc -v
>     Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
>     gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)
>
> Just to be sure it's really 7.2:
>
>     [kev@mesquite kev]$ head -1 /etc/issue
>     Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)
>
> And note the compiler version used to compile the kernel on my 7.2
> machine:
>
>    [kev@mesquite kev]$ cat /proc/version
>    Linux version 2.4.7-10 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc
version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 Thu Sep 6 16:46:36 EDT
2001
>
> The kernel version is different, but the compiler used to compile the
> kernel is the same as the one from Patrick's 7.1 kernel!
>
> Kevin
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