From 6ce00b44405a478039d81a6c096620338b5d03a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 04:40:25 +0000
Subject: Tweaked 'get_platform()' to include the first character of the OS
 release: eg. sunos5, linux2, irix5.

---
 Lib/distutils/util.py | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 6674d0a..63b6bec 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -545,10 +545,8 @@ def get_platform ():
        i.e. "???" or "???"."""
 
     if os.name == 'posix':
-        uname = os.uname()
-        OS = uname[0]
-        arch = uname[4]
-        return "%s-%s" % (string.lower (OS), string.lower (arch))
+        (OS, _, rel, _, arch) = os.uname()
+        return "%s%c-%s" % (string.lower (OS), rel[0], string.lower (arch))
     else:
         return sys.platform
 
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