Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:45:58 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi AT iki DOT fi>
To: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP & Windows 2000 weelky status report for 23-Sep-2001
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:42:00PM +0200, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> > But that is what config.guess/config.sub return. I was 
> > referring to uname.
> 
> Is there any particular reason why Perl's configure needs
> to roll its own detection?  I suspect config.guess and
> config.sub recognize more platforms than Perl currently
> does.

Perl does not use GNU configure.

> That aside, what's preventing perl from using the first
> part of uname's output (I think's that's always 'MS-DOS')?
> Or, it could do some DJGPP-specific tests (for example,
> it could test for $DJGPP and $DJDIR/djgpp.env exisiting
> and being the same file).

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