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Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?
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Mo DeJong |
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Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go? |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:58:02 -0800 (PST) |
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> --- Mo DeJong <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Why would this depend on uname? I was under the impression that
> > autoconf would just try to compile conftest.c and then find
> > the obj extension by looking for files named conftest.*,
> > filtering out conftest.c and then using whatever was left
> > (either conftest.o or conftest.obj). That might have changed,
> > but it seems to be the way I remember it.
> >
>
> It has been discussed as a possibility to use uname instead of the compile and
> link method. If uname doesn't exist you just specify the parts that would
> have
> been guessed or a generic uname script supplied by autoconf figures it out. I
> don't know if the discussion has become code yet.
>
> Cheers,
Why would you want to use uname? I could see making an argument
for using the build and host info from config.guess. Is that
what you are suggesting?
Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc
- Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?, (continued)
- Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?, Earnie Boyd, 2000/11/20
- Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?, Mo DeJong, 2000/11/20
- Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?, Morten Eriksen, 2000/11/22
- Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?, Paul Berrevoets, 2000/11/22
- Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go? (patch suggestion), Lars J. Aas, 2000/11/22
- Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go? (patch suggestion), Paul Berrevoets, 2000/11/22
- Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go? (patch suggestion), Lars J. Aas, 2000/11/22
- Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go? (patch suggestion), Paul Berrevoets, 2000/11/22
- Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?, Morten Eriksen, 2000/11/22
Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?, Earnie Boyd, 2000/11/22
- Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?,
Mo DeJong <=
RE: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?, Bernard Dautrevaux, 2000/11/23