Markus Neteler wrote: > <markus.metz.gisw...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > > The OS detection scripts are actually quite different. > > I looked into config.guess and config.sub which I thought would do this > job.
The detection scripts (config.guess and config.sub) are provided by autoconf. The SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS macro which sets the variables related to compilation and linking is part of GRASS. The 6.x version of SC_CONFIG_CFLAGS doesn't actually use the results of the detection scripts, but the output from "uname". > > Support for AIX > > and various other platforms has been removed in GRASS 7. > > Any particular reason for that? The SC_CONFIG_FLAGS macro was originally copied in its entirety from Tcl/Tk. It was designed for Tcl/Tk's build system, not GRASS', was quite old, used "uname" instead of $host (so cross-compiling was impossible), and few of the "supported" platforms had actually been tested. r39731 re-wrote it to use $host. Rather than trying to figure out the correct $host value for each possible system (few of which were available for testing), the sections for "unused" systems were removed, with the intent that they would be added if and when someone with access to such a system was able to report the correct $host value and which compiler/linker switches actually worked on that system. -- Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
