Re: configure.ac problem

[Michael Koch]

Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2004 20:24 schrieb Archie Cobbs:
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> > >> if expr match ${target_cpu} .*86 > /dev/null; then
> > >> target_cpu=x86;
> >
> > Michael> Can we please make sure we need this stuff at all with
> > latest Michael> autoconf ?  I'm not really sure about it. Why was
> > this hack Michael> needed ? I dont see any documentation about
> > this.
> >
> > A comment would be nice.  Archie, could you add that before you
> > commit? I assume this code is needed because target_cpu might be
> > i686, i386, etc, but we just want "x86" as the name.
>
> Below is my patch... note that this one is simpler, I just replaced
> the "match" keyword with ":" which apparently is more portable.

Can you point me to a useful documentation on this ?


Michael