--- Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So I am back to something I raised some time ago: why the heck do we
> have to compile to recognize Mingw etc.? Can't we just uname? While
> anti-Autoconf (and btw, frankly, compiling __MINGW32__ makes no big
> difference to me), it seems better in that, for instance, it makes it
> possible to enable the support of these kind of machines without
> requiring a C compiler.
>
Speaking for MinGW authoritatively, there is no reason that uname can't be
used. I've supplied a uname for MinGW which config.guess uses correctly. I
also agree that requiring C isn't a good idea for autoconf.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd
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