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| author | John Tytgat <joty@netsurf-browser.org> | 2008-04-07 23:13:06 +0000 |
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| committer | John Tytgat <joty@netsurf-browser.org> | 2008-04-07 23:13:06 +0000 |
| commit | 90e061c6a9cd8c762df0609406a9e4fac8e305c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 6cd404bc773cfe7f8e05830713c57d4c922a011f /Makefile | |
| parent | f3d968bfc02418ed424fcfa78f54dcb73e982ff9 (diff) | |
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Updated comments on RISC OS HOST determination issue.
svn path=/trunk/netsurf/; revision=4086
Diffstat (limited to 'Makefile')
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -24,14 +24,17 @@ all: all-program # Determine host type -# NOTE: Currently, this is broken on RISC OS due to what appear to be bugs -# in UnixLib's pipe()/dup2() implementations. +# NOTE: HOST determination on RISC OS could fail because of missing bug fixes +# in UnixLib which only got addressed in UnixLib 5 / GCCSDK 4. # When you don't have 'uname' available, you will see: # File 'uname' not found -# but when you do, you will see: +# When you do and using a 'uname' compiled with a buggy UnixLib, you +# will see the following printed on screen: # RISC OS # In both cases HOST make variable is empty and we recover from that by # assuming we're building on RISC OS. +# In case you don't see anything printed (including the warning), you +# have an update to date RISC OS build sytem. ;-) HOST := $(shell uname -s) ifeq ($(HOST),) HOST := riscos |