Quoth Ian Lance Taylor:
> This works because build != host only arises when the user does
> something odd. If you are building with a cross-compiler, you should
> use --host. If you are not building with a cross-compiler, you should
> not use --host.
>
> What actual case are you concerned about?
I'm "concerned" because the below is the current behaviour and many people
agree that what you said is better. :)
>
> 2) Test program fails to run. That will not always catch things such as a
> FreeBSD -> Linux build. But running a test program might fail because the
> run-time environment isn't set up right, for example problems with the
> dynamic linker. Or consider building in /tmp which might be mounted
> noexec. What you really need to test is if the program would run at the
> installation destination, but you can't really do that.
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