Re: --host in Configure

["Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>]

On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 08:52 AM, Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:41:18PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 10:47:09AM -0500, Igor Schein wrote:
> >
> > > In general, I think the sooner Configure will be converted to
> > > autoconf, the better and easier it'll be.
> >
> > I'm very pleased that PARI Configure is not based on this monster.  If
> > autoconf's Configure fails, you are busted; period.  IIRC, PARI one is
> > loosely based on metadist's Configure which is miles better in this
> > regard (allows an interactive run).
>
> Could you split the Configure file in smaller scripts that would be 
> sourced from
> Configure ? That would enhance maintainability somewhat.
>
> Say one script to find the compiler, one to find the linker, etc...
>
> I have found information about shared libraries on MacOS X at
> <http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/shared.php> but I do not have 
> a box
> to test.

I have Mac OS X boxes (10.15 and 10.2.2), and am happy to test if needs 
be.

Regards,

Justin

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