Re: AC_CYGWIN etc. (Was: AC_OBJEXT again)

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Here is my proposal.
> 
> 
-8<-

I have a problem with
-8<-
>  
>  @defmac AC_CYGWIN
>  @maindex CYGWIN
> -Checked for the Cygwin environment in which case the shell variable
> address@hidden is set to @samp{yes}.  @code{AC_EXEEXT} now handles this
> -task.
> +Check for the Cygwin environment in which case the shell variable
> address@hidden is set to @samp{yes}.  Don't use this macro, the dignified
> +means to check the nature of the host is using
> address@hidden  As a matter of fact this macro is defined as:
> +
> address@hidden
> +AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST])[]dnl
> +case $host_os in
> +  *cygwin* ) CYGWIN=yes;;
> +         * ) CYGWIN=no;;
> +esac
> address@hidden example
>  @end defmac
> 
in that the variable CYGWIN is used by Cygwin to control Cygwin
characteristics.  It is not a variable that should be set arbitrarily to some
arbitrary value.  Perhaps use ACYGWIN instead.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:address@hidden

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