[Foxgui-users]Re: patch to fix BYTEORDER using Mingw32

[jeroen <je...@fo...>]

On Friday 10 January 2003 09:56 am, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as already pointed in the FAQ, there is a problem with the AC_C_BYTEORDER
> macros in the configure script when cross-compiling to Win32 from unix,
> using mingw32 (downloaded from the SDL site). Examining the autoconf's
> "aclang.m4" file,  it's clear that autoconf doesn't allow to run the little
> test program used as a fallback byteorder determination while
> cross-compiling (the running plateform would not be the target plateform).
>
> So, here are patches to the FOX "configure.in" files, one for the stable
> 1.0.28 version, and one that works for both  1.1.21 (unstable) and 1.1.22
> (yesterday's snapshot) versions. The new test takes place when the compiler
> system name is known (CYGWIN or MINGW32). Then, it just assumes that
> Mingw32 implies (cross) compiling to Win32, that in turn implies that we
> are targeted at an x86 architecture, and thus, the byteorder is set to the
> value '0', and the autoconf's variable WORDS_BIGENDIAN is not set.
>
> Best regards,
> Pierre.


Thanks.  It seems to work [I hope it works better now with x-compiling
too].


I will redrop 1.0.30 also.


			- Jeroen


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