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

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

>> > --cygnus          assume program is part of Cygnus-style tree
>> 
>> I've never seen this option, and it doesn't seem to be accepted by any
>> autoconf-generated `configure' script.

> Oh, perhaps it only applies to automake.

Ah, I see!  You were suggesting an `autoconf' option, not a
`configure' option.

> Do you mean warn that --host will do a cross compile or warn that
> it will not do a cross compile?

It would do a cross compile if host_alias is different from
build_alias, including the case of an empty build_alias.

> By the way, my patch was not to test if $host_alias != $build_alias,
> it was a test to see if they were exactly the same and only when
> --host=TRIPLE was given.

Yup.  I'd always implied --host given.

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