On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:26:52PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Marat Radchenko <ma...@slonopotamus.org> writes: > > > When crosscompiling, one cannot rely on `uname` from host system. > > That may well be true, but is that limited to cross-compiling to > mingw? Would it be generally true for any cross compilation, > wouldn't it? > > 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`? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
