[Ecls-list] architecture-specific *FEATURES*

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Matthew Mondor
<mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net> wrote:
> Note that I've not looked into the implementation details yet to
> suggest a diff, although I'd like to know if there's any existing
> precedent about this I'm unaware of, or if the suggestion is welcome.

Even if you supply a CFLAGS, ECL still may need to guess the
architecture it runs on when building, so the logic would not be
"check CFLAGS and do that or this", but rather decide whether a
platform / chipset feature is added at all at compilation time or at
run time. The problem with the latter is that the logic for platform
detection a-la-gnu is very very complicated: just have a look at
config.guess / config.sub So in the case of run time detection via
uname() it is not realistic to provide standardized platform names as
features, but rather rely on whatever uname() gives us

Juanjo

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