>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> 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?
Alexandre> Correct.
No you wouldn't: $host_alias != $build_alias since anything != "".
Alexandre> We might also set cross_compiling=maybe if --host is
Alexandre> specified but --build isn't, and then use the original
Alexandre> 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?
Alexandre> I wouldn't vote against such a macro :-)
I am. I know it seems contradictory, but Autoconf must not have
several flavors. It must run always the same way. It is a bad thing
to change the interface, but when we face such a bad thing, we have
to. But only once, and with a single new interface, not several.
