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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 26, 2000, Paul Berrevoets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut 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.

Yup.  I've found many packages whose config.guess would guess
alphaev6-unknown-linux-gnu, but whose config.sub wouldn't accept
alphaev6, so I had to manually `configure alpha-unknown-linux-gnu'.
Of course, in these cases, it is the package that's broken, for
shipping incompatible versions of config.guess and config.sub, but I
wouldn't want configure to think it's cross compiling just because
I've specified the host system name.

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