Re: So it seems like AC_C_BIGENDIAN is broken for cross case

[Assar Westerlund]

Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems clear that the AC_TRY_RUN does not have an argument for
> the cross compile case.

You mean to do something else in that case?

> Can we at least get agreement that this AC_C_BIGENDIAN macro is in
> fact broken?

I think so.  But it's really hard to figure out the endianess of
another machine.  The only ways of doing that that I can think of is
to add a table, have explicit options, or if we can find out from the
include files (typically sys/endian.h).

/assar