mozilla - doing silly stuff...

["Gareth Pearce" <tilps at hotmail dot com>]

Hi...

With all the things which have successfully managed to be ported recently
... I noticed that most of the pre-requisits for mozilla had been done
(libIDL compiled out of the box- I think... no testsuite to check if its
working), so I gave it a go at atempting to compile (I just do this sort of
thing to waste time) - it configured, then failed to compile the first
file - not with a compile error - but syntax error for the gcc command line.
The problem is this - uname -r returns a string which has round brackets in
it - which mozilla compile tries to pass as a define, to be exact it
passes -DOSTYPE=\"CYGWIN_NT-5.01.3.3(0.46/3/2)\" for my machine.
This causes gcc to complain.  Now I could probably patch this or something
... but before I tried that I was wondering if this was something which
mozilla shouldnt be relying on - or if gcc or the uname report were non
standard.

Regards,
Gareth Pearce

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