Re: Renaming the system to 'DragonFly'

[David Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     That seems to fool configure.  It took an hour or two to figure out
>     the right parameters... it turns out that just setting the OS name is
>     not enough, because our DragonFly version is 1.0 configure wound up
>     believing the operating system to be FreeBSD-1.0, which broke a lot
>     of things :-).  So I basically have to override nearly all the uname
>     parameters.

In theory, autoconf's configure should be able to handle a host/target 
override (ala --host=i686-elf-freebsd or somesuch).  In theory, half the 
time it thinks you're trying to do a cross-compile and refuses to go 
much of anywhere.

>     Boy do I hate configure. 

Amen to that...