let us take a look at it. i can't promise anything, but
we'll see....
jeff
At 08:58 AM 4/19/99 -0500, Shaw Terwilliger wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 03:00:55AM -0400, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
>> OS_ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/
>> -e s/sun4u/sparc64/
>> -e s/arm.*/arm/
>> -e s/sa110/arm/
>> | sed "s/\//-/")
>>
>> This looks to me like kind of a nasty kludge. Shouldn't
>> this code be more generic like:
>>
>> OS_ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed "s/\//-/")
>
>Yeah, it is really kinda kludgy. I originally took it out
>of the Linux kernel Makefile, since I knew we'd have some
>odd uname reports. It's grown and grown since each new
>version of the Win32 Cygnus tools seem to report version in a
>completely different format. I think they're up to something
>like "0.92.1 (4/19/99)", whereas every Unix I can think of
>does something like "2.2.4" or "5.7".
>
>Our Makefiles aren't very pretty, and they also have the
>added effect of tying a platform to a compiler in many
>cases (VC is always expected on Win32). I'm all in favor
>of changes to alleviate this problem.
>
>--
>Shaw Terwilliger
>