RE: AC_PROG_CC not working

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 6:24 PM
> To: Akim Demaille; Alexandre Oliva
> Cc: Morten Eriksen; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: AC_PROG_CC not working
> 
> 
> --- Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > So I am back to something I raised some time ago: why the heck do we
> > have to compile to recognize Mingw etc.?  Can't we just 
> uname?  While
> > anti-Autoconf (and btw, frankly, compiling __MINGW32__ makes no big
> > difference to me), it seems better in that, for instance, 
> it makes it
> > possible to enable the support of these kind of machines without
> > requiring a C compiler.
> > 
> 
> Speaking for MinGW authoritatively, there is no reason that 
> uname can't be
> used.  I've supplied a uname for MinGW which config.guess 
> uses correctly.  I
> also agree that requiring C isn't a good idea for autoconf.
> 

Just to verify: You're talking of recognizing MinGW as a BUILD system, not
HOST, aren't you? uname will only give information about the BUILD system,
so if we plan to configure using a cross-compiler, uname will do no good :-)

Regards,

        Bernard

PS: sorry if I get in late, but I think I've overlooked this thread
before...

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