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Re: [FYI] docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: [FYI] docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro. |
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Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:22:24 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04) |
Hi Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:21:48AM CET:
> The automake manual states that the cygwin mode requires the macro
> AM_CYGWIN32,
> but this is not true anymore since at least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064
> "merged changes from Cygnus" of 1997-08-25 (yep!); also, the AM_CYGWIN32 macro
> has been obsoleted from at least commit Release-1-3b-14-gd4d5968 "Track recent
> autoconf changes" of 1998-09-26.
>
> So I installed the following patch to maint, and pushed.
Hmpf. Nowadays AM_CYGWIN just expands to AC_CYGWIN, which causes
$CYGWIN to be set. The latter is probably a bad idea for other reasons
(Cygwin AFAIK uses the variable for other purposes), but at least one
macro in Autoconf's fortran.m4 still seems to make use of $CYGWIN. It
should at least also be fixed to use $host_os instead.
Thanks,
Ralf
> docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
>
> * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
> the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
> least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
> Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).