Mark,
On 2004 Jul 14 , at 11.14, Mark Taylor wrote:
> I'm not sure if that's appropriate here (I may not have phrased this
> step very well) - the tcl.m4 script actually sets the system variable
> like this:
>
> system=`uname -s`-`uname -r`
>
> before it switches on it at runtime, so I think evaluating
> `uname -s`-`uname -r` on a Mac is the way to find this out.
> But I might have missed some subtleties here!
Ah, fair enough. Sorry -- I should have looked at the script in
question before jumping in with advice. While the AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
is the way in general to handle platform-specific magic, it sounds
indeed as if Tcl is special here, as everywhere.
See you,
Norman
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