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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:56:37 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: updated win32 macro
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In-Reply-To: <000201c0ada6$0134fc80$a300a8c0@nhv>; from nhv@cape.com on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:16:44PM -0500

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:16:44PM -0500, Norman Vine wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>>>
>>>I would really like to minimse the alterations needed outside of
>>>configure.in - can you think of any package in particular 
>>likely to have
>>>trouble with CC=gcc -mwin32 ? (So that we could test it)
>>
>>Yes.  If you configure this way in the tcl directory and then 
>>cd .., the
>>tcl directory won't build because CC is overridden by the 
>>toplevel make.
>>
>>If you use CC='gcc -mwin32' configure in the top-level, then we might
>>as well just get rid of -mwin32 completely.  This will cause every
>>single package to be built with -mwin32 whether it needs it or not.
>
>FWIW
>
>I just built tcl the other day
>
>./configure --includedir=/usr/include/w32api
>make
>
>just worked :-)

We're trying to avoid telling people to include an additional
option.  That just doesn't work.

cgf