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

[Paul Berrevoets]

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On 25 Apr 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Perhaps the mere presence of --host (or NOOPT) could give a gentle hint
> that cross-compilation is at least tolerated (but not forced). After all,
> why are you specifying it otherwise? The converse is of course not true.

Because you may want to provide an alias for the host (native) system.
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Paul