"Arnd Hanses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Is this bug-bound? Everybody does it (at least in C), I'd say
| configure

Everybody does not use it...not even in C

| is severely broken in too many cases (not only with emx but on systems
| like AIX, IRIX, CRAY etc., too). I'd better not trust this problematic
| tool; even on Linux I had problems with tests depending in libc4/5.

Where/when is configure broken?

| >We can have the configure script (or the makefile) setup a link from
| >os_specific.h to os2_defines.h, or os_default.h.
| 
| I would like it more to put the actual C++ code into some os_suport.C
| and leave the defines in os2_defines.h. I could use then in filetools.C
| 
|       #ifdef __EMX__
|       #include <os_suport.C>
|       #endif

And then we are back to a multitude of #ifdefs for different
systems...

        Lgb

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