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Subject: Re: RFD - UNAME_MACHINE ?
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:19:46 -0600 (CST)
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> I agree with DJ and Tim: there are better solutions to this nuisance
> than an environment variable.

...

> You can have this by passing a suitable argument to ./configure.

Okay, then how about a request - anyone who provides a .bat file which
calls configure should explicitly provide the target on the command 
line?  Many (most?) distributions provide bat files which do a large 
number of operations here (so are required) and call configure - and 
I don't see a single one which passes the target (all use config.guess).  
Right now when these break I have to go look up which target is expected 
and then find the right place to edit.

If the right solution is to pass an argument to configure, then 
associated .bat files should do that (or it should be in the associated
readme.djgpp, build.dos or whatever).

Like I said, this isn't hard to fix if you know the problem, but it 
shouldn't even be needed.