Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?

[Ralf Corsepius]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Mo" == Mo DeJong <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Mo> Whats the deal?
> 
> That's the result of our hesitations about this issues, and the fact
> that we couldn't even come up with a precise definition of what EXEEXT
> and OBJEXT are.
> 
> For a start: are they related to host, or to build?
> 
With autoconf-2.13 they were derived from $CC, which normally refers
to $host.

But if a build-system would require build-tools to be invoked with
their full names (i.e. gcc.exe instead gcc) they also would be
needed for the build-system -- OTOH, I don't know about any such
system.

Ralf

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