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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:42:27 +0100
From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [5780] Native BSD host USB support (Juergen Lock,
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer wrote:
>> It shouldn't try to compile, for the sake of cross portability. Rather
>> something like
>>
>> gcc -E -dM -xc /dev/null |grep __linux__
>>
>> This checks if the compiler in use is a Linux compiler.
>>   
>
> Good enough, but I wonder why you think it shouldn't compile for the  
> sake of cross portability?
>
> The cross compiler should be able to create an executable.  You don't  
> have to run it, you just have to rely on #error causing compilation to 
> fail.

You are right, disregard my comment on that. :-)


Thiemo