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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] platform auto-detection mechanism


From: Mario Domenech Goulart
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] platform auto-detection mechanism
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:32:19 -0500
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Hi Michele,

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:05:20 +0100 Michele La Monaca <address@hidden> wrote:

> Since I am getting tired of those PLATFORM=blablabla for every single
> make invocation (even for the "clean" target), I decided it was time
> to do something about it (yes, I am aware of that congif.make file)

Alternatively, there's the trick of exporting PLATFORM from your shell
configuration file.


> Maybe there are good reasons I overlooked not to use an auto-detection
> mechanism (maybe it's just not really feasible) but in case, here it
> is my naive attempt.  I wouldn't bet on it but I would give it a try.

The idea is interesting, indeed.  What about cross-builds?


> My main concerns are about those mingw things... I'am not exactly an
> expert in the field.

Yeah, we have only a few people testing Chicken on Windows, and it it
causes breakages when we least expect them.  Autodetection on Windows
sounds particularly hard.


Best wishes.
Mario
-- 
http://parenteses.org/mario



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