Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go?

[Earnie Boyd]

--- 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,

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Earnie Boyd
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