On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:15:26PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> Looks like AIX' uname is the culprit, its behaviour is only partially
> consistent with other UNIXes - I guess I'll write a wrapper script
> that returns the proper OS version on uname -r ( AIX returns the minor
> version number while others return the whole version string, which is
> what buildlink seems to expect ), power or powerpc on uname -m ( AIX
> returns some hexadecimal architecture identifier which can't be easily
> used to distinguish between CPU types ) and so on.

Just for curiosity, would you tell me the output of "uname -p" on your
AIX system?

Ben