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A.25 STAR_PLATFORM_SOURCES

STAR_PLATFORM_SOURCES(target-file-list, platform-list)

Generate the given target-file for each of the files in the list TARGET-FILE-LIST, by selecting the appropriate element of the PLATFORM-LIST based on the value of AC_CANONICAL_BUILD. Both lists are space-separated lists.

For each of the platforms, <p>, in platform-list, there should be a file <target-file><p>. There should always be a file <target-file>default, and if none of the platform-list strings matches, this is the file which is used. If the `default' file is listed in the `platform-list', then it is matched in the normal run of things; if it is not listed, it still matches, but a warning is issued.

If you wish no match not to be an error -- perhaps because there is a platform-dependent file which is redundant on unlisted platforms -- then end the platform-list with NONE. In this case, if no file matches, then no link is made, with no error or warning.

This macro uses the results of ./config.guess to determine the current platform. That returns a triple consisting of cpu-vendor-os, such as `i686-pc-linux-gnu' (OS=linux-gnu), `sparc-sun-solaris2.9', or `alphaev6-dec-osf5.1'.

The extensions <p> in platform-list should all have the form `cpu_vendor[_os]', where each of the components `cpu', `vendor' and `os' may be blank. If not blank, they are matched as a prefix of the corresponding part of the config.guess value. Thus `_sun_solaris' would match `sparc-sun-solaris2.9' but not `sparc-sun-sunos', and `_sun' would match both. For a <target-file> file foo.c, this would result in `ln -s foo.c_sun foo.c'.

Calls AC_LIBSOURCE for each of the implied platform-specific files.


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The Starlink Build System
Starlink System Note 78
Norman Gray, Peter W Draper, Mark B Taylor, Steven E Rankin
11 April 2005. Release snapshot: $Revision: 1.116 $. Last updated 28 May 2006