Re: --host => cross breaks GCC builds

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 28, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What is wrong with just running config.guess without knowing
> anything about the cross compiler?

People would have set CC=/path/to/cross-compiler, and config.guess
would use it unless CC_FOR_BUILD or HOST_CC are set.  There's room for
a lot of trouble.  But maybe getting a reasonable guess in some cases
is better than having no guess at all?  It would be trivial to
accomplish that: just remove the line that sets
build_alias=$host_alias from my proposed patch.

The more I think about it, the more I think it's a good idea.

Thanks for pushing us (me?) in the right direction :-)

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