From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: "Márk S. Zoltán" <zoltan.s.mark@dravanet.hu>
Cc: Caml Mailing List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Re: [Caml-list] Re: MinGW port w/o Cygwin?
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:40:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071224104022.GA30047@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <476E7CA1.6000501@dravanet.hu>
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 04:20:01PM +0100, "Márk S. Zoltán" wrote:
> I am using my clandestine MSys + MinGW OCaml since about 3.0, and I have
> originally switched to MSys because the configuration scripts of a
> number of other apps and libraries did not handle the -mno-cygwin flag,
> or any other flag for that matter: the 'supply extra compiler flags'
> feature seemed to be thoroughly broken in all configure scripts, I
> wonder if anyone ever uses it.
The problem is that configure.ac authors have to follow a series of
arcane conventions to make sure they don't delete the user-specified
CFLAGS. Since they don't, and there's no indication to the author
that they have, it is often broken. But then the auto* tools are just
terrible like this.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-24 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-20 14:30 Kuba Ober
2007-12-20 15:23 ` Zheng Li
2007-12-20 20:18 ` [Caml-list] " Kuba Ober
2007-12-21 14:06 ` Dmitry Bely
2007-12-23 15:20 ` "Márk S. Zoltán"
2007-12-23 16:33 ` Re : " Adrien
2007-12-24 12:50 ` Dmitry Bely
2007-12-26 17:59 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-26 17:54 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-06 15:14 ` Re : " Adrien
2008-01-08 14:25 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-24 10:40 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2007-12-26 18:01 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-26 17:45 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-26 22:48 ` Dmitry Bely
2007-12-27 12:41 ` Kuba Ober
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