RE: OBJ and EXE and cross-compilation (Was: AC_OBJEXT again)

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 2:02 AM
> To: Alexandre Oliva; Mo DeJong
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: OBJ and EXE and cross-compilation (Was: AC_OBJEXT again)
> 
> 
> --- Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Dec 12, 2000, Mo DeJong <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > I guess the question is, should we try to compile 
> something and the
> > > set the $host if the user did not, or do we just expect that the
> > > user is going to pass the correct --host?
> > 
> > Methinks config.guess should do it.  Can't it tell cygwin 
> from mingw?
> > 
> 
> With an appropriate uname, yes.
> 


Nooo..., config.guess guesses the BUILD system, not the HOST one, except if
running the mingw compiler using a mingw-bash and a mingw-uname and
mingw-make, outside of cygwin; otherwise you *need* config.guess to detect
you're running under cygwin as build platform :-)

        Bernard

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