On Jun 26, 2000, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 26 Jun 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> > What about a new option --xhost=TRIPLE?
>>
>> I like it. That seems exactly what Akim has been looking for:
>> something that the user can specify to not leave any doubt that cross
>> compilation is to take place.
> Isn't that equivalent to the --cross option that has been thrown around a
> while ago?
Yup. But, instead of --cross --host=TRIPLET, you'd specify it all in
a single option: --xhost=TRIPLET. After all, it wouldn't make sense
to specify --cross if you weren't specifying --host too.
But now I see a problem with both --xhost and --cross: if you specify
it in a top-level `configure' script, it will be passed down to all
sub-`configure's. If any of them hasn't been generated with an
autoconf that supports these options, the option will be rejected, and
the whole `configure' process will fail. This is bad. So, on second
thought, I'm against --xhost. We need something that's
backward-compatible, for example, --enable-cross.
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