[cmake-developers] Retrieving OS Version in CMake

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Tue Jun 5 11:38:24 EDT 2018


On 06/05/2018 11:24 AM, Harry Mallon wrote:
> Or is it best to add new fields?

We should only add new fields and revise documentation to match
existing behavior.

> e.g. one of the below?
> * OS_NAME: "Linux" -> "Fedora", OS_RELEASE: "$(uname -r)" -> "28"
> * OS_RELEASE: "$(uname -r)" -> "Fedora  28"
> * LINUX_DISTRO: "Fedora 28"

A separate LINUX_DISTRO sounds good, but we'd need to make sure
whatever convention is used for the version (in the name or as
a separate value) makes sense for all distros' conventions.

-Brad


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