crash in config.guess on Power Mac G5 under Mac OS X 10.4.6

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr at cs.tamu.edu
Fri May 19 20:58:19 CEST 2006


Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.org> writes:

| On 2006-05-19 18:37:42 +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
| > Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.org> writes:
| > 
| >   On 2006-05-19 15:46:58 +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
| >   > Please look at the code.  Setting up signal handling seems risky,
| >   > and will likely cause more breakage than it fixes.
| >   
| >   Why?
| >   
| > Systems might not have signals, the include files vary, we might
| > not even be running Unix, etc, etc.
| 
| Wrong! The <signal.h> header was even in K&R C.

That hardly means it works correctly and does what you want.

-- Gaby


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