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RE: updated win32 macro


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 :-)

this was with gcc-2.95.2-7

Cheers

Norman Vine


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