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Re: Windows / Interix / WGCC
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Windows / Interix / WGCC |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:38:43 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:41:51PM CET:
> This was already fixed in CVS:
[...]
> Duft Markus <Markus.Duft <at> salomon.at> writes:
>
> > The patch does not affect anybody else
>
> Actually, it does. Your patch introduces an unnecessary pipe to cat on non-
> Interix, so you've added to the number of fork()s that must be performed, and
> would thus slow down ./configure for everyone. Not to mention that your
> patch
> hard-codes knowledge of the platform name, which is a no-no in the autoconf
> philosophy (test features, not platform names).
Not to mention that uname doesn't tell you the $host but the $build.
Cheers,
Ralf