Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] MINGW: config.mak.uname: auto-detect MinGW build from compiler

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:34:25 -0700

Marat Radchenko <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:26:52PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> What I am wondering is if it is a better solution to make it easier
>> to allow somebody who is cross compiling to express "Mr.  Makefile,
>> we know better than you and want you to do a MINGW build for us
>> without checking with `uname -?` yourself", i.e.
>> 
>> 	$ make uname_O=MINGW uname_S=MINGW
>> 
>> which would hopefully allow cross-compilation into other
>> environments, not just MINGW.
>
> So, do you really want this patch to be changed from 5-liner into
> a full-blow system detection rewrite based on `cc -dumpmachine`
> instead of `uname`?

No, and I do not quite see why you even need to look at -dumbmachine
output when your goal is to make this command line

>> 	$ make uname_O=MINGW uname_S=MINGW

work sensibly.  Wouldn't it be more like a series of

	ifndef uname_O
        uname_O := $(shell uname -o)
	endif

or something like that?

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