Re: [Axiom-developer] cannot build axiom

[William Sit]

On Wed, 28 May 2008 19:57:58 -0400
 root <address@hidden> wrote:
> > So what will you tell them that you cannot figure out by 
> > a proper
> > configure script automatically?
>
> I do not know how to automatically and generically figure 
> out the
> correct string, e.g. "debian", "macosxppc", "fedora9" 
> ,etc. It seems
> that this would take an expert in each system to write 
> system-specific
> code to probe the configuration for each system.

I certainly don't know anything about OSes. But it seems 
to me that there is a dumb way. If each supported OS 
stanza includes the expert system-specific code to verify 
(not probing to find what the OS is, but assuming the OS 
is the one in the stanza, verify it -- only a yes or no 
answer) that the OS is the right one, then by a process of 
elimination, a loop going through all the OSes stanzas 
until a match is found(or not found) should solve the 
problem. 

William