Re: Is this a bug in autoconf?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 21, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The documentation seems to indicate that the only macro I
> would need was AC_CANONICAL_HOST? Are the docs wrong about that?

You'd seldom need information about the build platform, and you'd only
need information about the target platform when building the
toolchain.

> No that you mention it, the 2.13 docs do not even mention
> AC_CANONICAL_HOST. Was this something that was added recently?

No, it's not recent, but I think it was supposed to be something
internal.

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