On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:18:00AM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
- Configure message is wrong: checking whether we can build a Linux dll... yes I see this even on FreeBSD and NetBSD. :( It's not a
Linux dll,
but an FreeBSD/NetBSD dll.
Maybe this message should be changed, yes. But I don't think you should put a `uname` there.
Could you explain me a bit further why we shouldn't do that?
As far as the question above is concerned see Francois's reply. I fully agree with him.
However regardless of this, uname shouldn't be used (at least not directly). Autoconf provides a standard way to do this (which BTW happends to use uname). It can be used as below.
AC_CANONICAL_HOST
case $host_os in *cygwin* ) CYGWIN=yes;; * ) CYGWIN=no;; esac
It requires two files config.sub and config.guess be distribute along with Wine but that is not really a problem. Perhaps we need to do this anyway. Autoconf 2.50 has discontinued AC_CYGWIN so CYGWIN support seems to require it regardless. Actually the code above is how this is done with Autoconf 2.50.
However making CYGWIN an exception is one thing, doing it in other cases is quite another thing.
IMHO you will need to provide a _really_ convincing argument that we should make another exception assuming of course we make the first one for CYGWIN which we haven't done yet either.
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:23:53AM +0200, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
However regardless of this, uname shouldn't be used (at least not directly). Autoconf provides a standard way to do this (which BTW happends to use uname). It can be used as below.
AC_CANONICAL_HOST
case $host_os in *cygwin* ) CYGWIN=yes;; * ) CYGWIN=no;; esac
It looks much better than uname, and reliable. :)
Jun-Young
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Bang Jun-Young -
Patrik Stridvall