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From: dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Telling csh about multiple, machine-dependent libraries
Summary: This may not work either.
Keywords: csh bin libraries
Message-ID: <2662@sultra.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 23:58:45 GMT
References: <173@heart-of-gold> <14592@mimsy.UUCP> <6490@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: Tynan Computers, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <6490@csli.STANFORD.EDU>, gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner) writes:
> where the file ~/conf/hosttype contains something like
>     # if sun
>     # undef sun
>     #   ifdef sparc
>     #   undef sparc
>     sparc
>     #   else
	...
> 
> This uses the guaranteed feature of cpp to have the predefined symbols "sun",
> "sparc", "vax", "hpux", etc. Everything else seemed to be different across
> machine architectures.
> 
> Juergen Wagner	   			gandalf@csli.stanford.edu

This may not work either.  At least, not in the general case.  For example,
what's the definition for a 68000?  I've seen both m68000 and m68k used.
Similar things happen with the Intel family.  Also, for example, the MINIX
C compiler balks when it sees;

#ifdef 3b1

For some reason it doesn't like the '3'.  What we need around here, is a
'standard'!
						- Der
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