present, so there's no use to doing it again in this script!

more similar to other configure builds (== use .la for libext and no binext)

kind of magic

quick hack to make it working again on Win32 - however we should consider to set some defaults depending on the compiler architecture we guess we are since it doesnt work well if we prefer building the msvc makefile with gmake instead of nmake because we found gmake first in path....

but we could use having a look at ares/config.h when that is used

stdout, since I've found cases on Solaris where the second output mixes with
the first and thus the big check-script doesn't properly find the first
string in the output stream.

style build

the default options set in the Makefile

options used by runtests.pl during testing (useful for disabling valgrind).

targetos only and not build os. Commented away the line that enables perl
warnings.

on my solaris 2.7 box too (currently unknown perl version)

we run configure.

moved call to buildconf.bat down so that it takes place in the build dir.

while perl often is installed in /usr/local/bin or elsewhere

chdir to absolute directory names instead. (this flaw exists in the shell
version too)