Re: Detecting DJGPP, Cygwin, Mingwin and EMX OS/2

[Peter Eisentraut]

Akim Demaille writes:

> Currently to find out if we are under one of these environments
> configure runs a compilation, typically to see if __CYGWIN__ is
> defined etc.

The reason you need to detect these can probably be generalized to either
"X doesn't work" or "X must be treated differently". In that case the
Autoconf philosophy would dictate that you try to use X or don't treat X
differently and see if it works. Now we only need to know what X is.


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