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

[Peter Eisentraut]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Mo DeJong wrote:

> I am still confused about what situation would actually
> call for AC_CANONICAL_BUILD without also calling
> AC_CANONICAL_HOST?

Well, there are some deeply twisted packages that have not seen the full
Autoconf light that rely on this sort of thing for convenience, such as
picking appropriate options to certain system tools used while building,
where writing a proper test is not very rewarding.


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