Re: dynamic object searching (was: Re: Dynamic objects)

[David Boyce]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Tim Murphy <address@hidden> wrote:
> Since you can't (in my recent experience) load a 64-bit DLL into a 32-bit
> program, the real issue is what architecture was make itself built with.
> It's sort of a matter of make identifying itself rather than telling you
> that you're running on ubuntu 13.04 or solaris 10.

Which is exactly what make_host tells you. It provides the
architecture make was built for in the form of e.g.
"x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" or whatever configure comes up with.

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:03 PM, David Boyce <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Well, David, when you suggested it I wasn't so sure.  But now that I've
>> thought of it myself... brilliant!! :-p :-)
>
> But now I'm having second thoughts ...

That was, I hope it's clear, a feeble joke. I find Paul's insight to
be a stroke of pure genius.

-David