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On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:01:52AM -0400, John Tobey wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> wrote: > > You assume somewhat wrongly. Large portions of Configure are doing > > exactly that: trying to figure out which particular variant (how many > > arguments and of which type) of a system/library call are we using > > today (and which particular combo of compiler flags, headers, and > > libraries, if we are using a compiler...) I would consider doing > > rather naughty things in public if I could figure out those things > > cleanly. > > That's a different problem. Configure is trying to reverse engineer > header files. Garrett already knows the prototype of his DLL function > he wants to call, but, unlike Configure, he doesn't have access to a C > compiler. Since this has vaguely swayed back on topic, I propose a perl6-build mailing list as a subset of perl6-internals to discuss how we're going to handle configure and build issues. I'll handle that if nobody else wants to. -- COBOL is for morons. -- E.W. DijkstraThread Previous | Thread Next