Re: AC_PROG_CC problems on Windows with MKS Shell

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:25:50PM -0800, Wan-Teh Chang wrote:
> "Lars J. Aas" wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:37:01AM -0800, Wan-Teh Chang wrote:
> > : I am trying to use autoconf on Windows with the
> > : MKS Toolkit, which consists of a Korn shell and
> > : the usual Unix utilities.
> > 
> > Woopie doo, yet another Windows environment :)
> 
> Well, isn't this exactly what autoconf is for? :)

(apparently not, based on the discussion over the past few years)
 
> In fact, MKS Toolkit is quite popular.  The "official"
> Services for Unix (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/sfu/)
> from Microsoft is based on MKS Toolkit.  I guess the

I don't see any mention of MKS on that webpage, btw.

> reason config.guess and config.sub don't recognize MKS
> right now is that it is not free of charge like Cygwin
> and U/Win are.

U/Win is only free of charge for non-commercial use.
 
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