Marat Radchenko <ma...@slonopotamus.org> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:26:52PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> What I am wondering is if it is a better solution to make it easier
>> to allow somebody who is cross compiling to express "Mr. Makefile,
>> we know better than you and want you to do a MINGW build for us
>> without checking with `uname -?` yourself", i.e.
>>
>> $ make uname_O=MINGW uname_S=MINGW
>>
>> which would hopefully allow cross-compilation into other
>> environments, not just MINGW.
>
> So, do you really want this patch to be changed from 5-liner into
> a full-blow system detection rewrite based on `cc -dumpmachine`
> instead of `uname`?
No, and I do not quite see why you even need to look at -dumbmachine
output when your goal is to make this command line
>> $ make uname_O=MINGW uname_S=MINGW
work sensibly. Wouldn't it be more like a series of
ifndef uname_O
uname_O := $(shell uname -o)
endif
or something like that?
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