Re: installer misidentifies illumos OS

On 2026-03-07 17:36, Karl Berry wrote:

> Carson, does illumos have an /etc/os-release or equivalent file?
> I seem to remember /etc/issue on Solaris-ish systems ...
> (But the output from config.guess is still what I'd like to know 
> first.)

My experience is that /etc/os-release is a bit hit-or-miss for non-Linux 
OSs. OpenIndiana does not have it (though another illumos variant, 
OmniOS, does). However, it does include /etc/release -- in a different 
format, of course. It looks like this:

```
carson@yoknapatawpha:/etc$ cat /etc/release
              OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (powered by illumos)
         OpenIndiana Project, part of The Illumos Foundation (C) 
2010-2025
                         Use is subject to license terms.
                            Assembled 26 October 2025
```

On config.guess, as I noted in another message, the output varies 
according to whether a C compiler is installed:

- Without a C compiler, the result is i386-pc-solaris2.11
- With a C compiler (gcc), the result is x86_64-pc-solaris2.11