On Jun 26, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 26 Jun 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Here's a patch that implements my proposal regarding the handling of
>> --build/--host options, assuming that Mo's patch makes it.  Ok to
>> install?

> So to do a cross build I would need to give both --build and
> --host?

Correct.

We might also set cross_compiling=maybe if --host is specified but
--build isn't, and then use the original cross_compiling test to
decide.

> Could there at least be some sort of AC_DONT_USE_HOST_KLUDGE
> macro that I could put into a new configure.in so that new
> programs do not need to be burdened by this crufty old stuff?

I wouldn't vote against such a macro :-)

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