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

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:05:57PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> I do like the "gcc -dumpmachine" method,
> though, as it is quite general (well, assuming the native compiler is
> named "gcc" everywhere, which I suppose might not be true).

Quite!  I hear FreeBSD has switched to LLVM completely, as has MacOS and
iirc Minix as well.  NetBSD and other BSD variants are also attempting
to switch (but it's taking them awfully long, IMO).

Cheers,
Peter
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