On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Guido Draheim wrote:
> This case of [AC_C_BIGENDIAN failure] would enforce the autoconf'ed package
> installer to go without autoconf'ed configure, whereas that is the case
> we have now for *everyone* trying to cross-compile packages containing
> AC_C_BIGENDIAN.
>
Mind you just additionally
a) adding a default case to AC_C_BIGENDIAN would fix the problem entirely
for what I use it for, i.e when on little endian platforms then seeing as
the data I deal with it always little endian I can do some speedups,
otherwise If I don't know what the endianess or if its bigendian it makes
no difference to me so my own cloned bigeendian test just provides a default
all the way down to the cross compile test inside the endianess test and Im
happy
b) making the ability to set the endianness from the commandline options of
the configure script would allow cross-compiling to continue, just feed the
commandline argument as a paramater into AC_C_BIGENDIAN, though perhaps
there are already far too many options, but endianness always crops
up with autoconf
C.
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