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

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] platform auto-detection mechanism
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:53:23 +0100

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:05:20PM +0100, Michele La Monaca 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)
>> 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.
>> My main concerns are about those mingw things... I'am not exactly an
>> expert in the field.
> 
> I think this is a useful addition, many people have complained about
> having to provide the PLATFORM.  Long ago I added an alias to call
> make with the proper flags, and pkgsrc (the package manager I use)
> calls it with the right flags already, so I had almost forgotten
> how annoying it is :)
> 
> Here's a slightly shortened version, grouping the BSDs together.
> I've added Dragonfly, but not MirBSD.  I'm not aware of anyone reporting
> that it works on MirOS, so I think we shouldn't be misleading MirOS users
> by "auto-detecting" their platform which isn't really tested or supported.
> 
> Of course, if someone has tested it on MirOS and can confirm it works we
> can add it to the list.  I'm unsure whether DragonFly still works, but I
> did find some conditionals and at least it's listed here:
> http://wiki.call-cc.org/platforms.
> 
> Could someone test this on Windows?

Works fine on mingw32 (I don't have a decent MSYS environment in the
moment).


cheers,
felix