> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 6:00 AM
> To: Paul Berrevoets
> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; Ian Lance Taylor; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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> Subject: Re: Is this a bug in autoconf? (patch included)
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>
> 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.
>
Just "./configure --build=alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" as in fact you are
building on an alpha-unknown-linux-gnu, and want a native compile...
Regards,
Bernard
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