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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] platform auto-detection mechanism
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Mario Domenech Goulart |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] platform auto-detection mechanism |
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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:32:19 -0500 |
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Hi Michele,
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:05:20 +0100 Michele La Monaca <address@hidden> 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)
Alternatively, there's the trick of exporting PLATFORM from your shell
configuration 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.
The idea is interesting, indeed. What about cross-builds?
> My main concerns are about those mingw things... I'am not exactly an
> expert in the field.
Yeah, we have only a few people testing Chicken on Windows, and it it
causes breakages when we least expect them. Autodetection on Windows
sounds particularly hard.
Best wishes.
Mario
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