Re: Is this a bug in autoconf? (patch included)

[Harlan Stenn]

The NTP project uses a/a for cross-compiles for the VxWorks port (at least;
I think there is another target that gets built but offhand I forget what it
is).

For whatever reason, when I implemented this (a couple of years ago, as I
recall), I used --target as the "driving force".  I recall looking at
--build, and for whatever reason found that I needed to use --target in
order to detect the cross-compile.  I probably wrote a small configure.in
and printed out $host, $build, and $target.

Regardless, and this is probably a stupid thing to say but I'll say it
anyway, I'd be happy to see this mess cleaned up and it would make my life
easier if we didn't have to hack ntp's cofigure.in more than once to deal
with the situation.  The NTP project now has something that works, and this
will be creating more work for the people involved (other people do the
cross-compiling; I just help make sure the resulting changes don't break
anything else).

H