Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 23 May 2013 10:31:26 Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/22/2013 11:43 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > my point for keeping the automatic search behavior is so that people > > don't have to pour through --help output and set yet-more esoteric > > variables so things "just work". you're of course r

Re: [RFC] getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems

2013-05-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/22/2013 11:43 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > my point for keeping the automatic search behavior is so that people don't > have to pour through --help output and set yet-more esoteric variables so > things "just work". you're of course right that by having two variables > results in dirt simp

Re: autoconf tests and stdcall name mangling

2013-05-23 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Wed, 22 May 2013, Zack Weinberg wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: The fundamental problem, I think, is that you really need the proper headers included and AC_REPLACE_FUNCS does not seem to allow you to specify the includes. So you probably can't use this macro at a

Re: autoconf tests and stdcall name mangling

2013-05-23 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Wed, 22 May 2013, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/22/2013 02:12 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: The fundamental problem, I think, is that you really need the proper headers included and AC_REPLACE_FUNCS does not seem to allow you to specify the include