Re: Fishy build system: make_exports.pl called on darwin?

[Marcin Dalecki <martin at dalecki dot de>]

On 2005-10-03, at 00:49, Shantonu Sen wrote:

> You're making a lot of terrible assumptions and drawing several  
> incorrect conclusions. xnu-792 is not the same as "darwin7.9.2",  
> and no configure script in the last 6 years should be detecting a  
> Mac OS X system as "ppc-apple-darwin" (it should be "powerpc-apple- 
> darwin").

I was just tyring to find out what those "wonderfull scripts do...  
and came already basically to the same as you.

> What is the output of
> % uname -r
> % type uname
> % /usr/share/libtool/config.guess

Just for reassurance:

$ uname -r
8.2.0
$ type uname
uname is hashed (/usr/bin/uname)
$ /usr/share/libtool/config.guess
powerpc-apple-darwin8.2.0

Still no seven involved.

> If you have GNU coreutils installed, something bad may be happening.

No I didn't mess with the system at all.