On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:10:52 -0800 Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I was making my comments in the context of Solaris. If you need to > support other OS', then you have to figure out things separately, and > indeed, this is the problem that tools like autoconf solves.
> For _Solaris_ (and more particularly ON), which is where the code in > question is intended to reside, I would vastly prefer to avoid creating > additional knowledge of processor-specific compilation environments > outside of what exists in sys/types.h. well there's the rub in this whole (sub)thread configuring for many systems vs. targeting for one system these are at cross purposes handle either side exclusively and you either end up with a source fork or one very good set of merge tools I believe one of the attractions of bringing ksh93+ast into ON is the that it does configure for many systems doing so produces executables that behave in a similar way, modulo system specific features, on all systems -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
