Re: Fw: MKS toolkit the 2nd

2002-09-08 Thread Harlan Stenn
If making config.gues return useful/normal values is a goal, then lets get rid of the cpu-vendor-linux-gnu braindamage and start returning the documented (and IMO more useful) behavior, where the 3rd piece of the CPU-VENDOR-OS string is the OS name/version. Values like i686-pc-redhat7.2, for exam

Re: Fw: MKS toolkit the 2nd

2002-09-08 Thread Paul Eggert
> From: Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 03:39:04 -0400 > > If making config.guess return useful/normal values is a goal, then > lets get rid of the cpu-vendor-linux-gnu braindamage To do that you'll first need to fix the GNU coding standards, which specify the behavior

Re: Fw: MKS toolkit the 2nd

2002-09-08 Thread Harlan Stenn
> > If making config.guess return useful/normal values is a goal, then > > lets get rid of the cpu-vendor-linux-gnu braindamage > > To do that you'll first need to fix the GNU coding standards, which > specify the behavior here. (It is a controversial area, so you'll > have to make a good case.

Re: Fw: MKS toolkit the 2nd

2002-09-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
Just point people to www.mingw.org and it's Minimal SYStem package, MSYS, and it's MinGW package. :) Advantage: : The configure script already executes properly. : It's open source. : It uses gcc+binutils+gmake. Earnie.

Problems with missing template

2002-09-08 Thread Stephen Torri
I am trying to update the xine project library automake/autoconf system to use autoconf-2.52 or above. In the m4 functions it has a function called AC_CHECK_IP_MREQN defined below: dnl AC_CHECK_IP_MREQN dnl check for struct ip_mreqn in netinet/in.h AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_IP_MREQN], [AC_CACHE

Re: Fw: MKS toolkit the 2nd

2002-09-08 Thread Jeff Conrad
Paul Eggert wrote: >For most of those sorts of things it is better to use the Autoconf >approach, where you test for the features that you need, rather than >guessing the list of supported features from the canonical system name Makes sense to me. And it shouldn't be that difficult to set up th

looking for ex lib projects

2002-09-08 Thread G.L. Grobe
Still trying to get the hang of all this and am looking for a clean project that creates several libs which are located in directories at least two levels deep that I can use for an example?   Any help much appreciated.