Subject: Re: your mail
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 07/26/1998 17:34:18
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Jonathan Stone wrote:

: Better to just define a variable to "mips" somewhere and _use_ it,
: everywhere where the semantic intent is to test for ``any mips'',
: surely?

Make can check for it with a wildcard.  Packages will (such as in
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS).

Shells can check for it with a wildcard.

If you want a CPP predefine, fine, maybe we can.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)