Am Mit, 2002-02-13 um 20.09 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > Currently we have some major breakage in Debian re. crosscompilation, and we > really would prefer to fix it only once (since it does mean changing all > packages that use autoconf, and that's quite a lot). That means we have > thousands of packages using a mix of 2.13 and 2.52 autoconf scripts that > need to be modifed. We would also like to tell configure what arch to build > for directly while at it (even when not crosscompiling), to avoid the > config.guess call. > > (FYI, crosscompilation in Debian is archived by setting some environment > variables, which set the desired host and target archs. > > These variables are > always set, since we don't want packages building for iX86-pc-linux-gnu, for > X != 3, just because the build machine is not an old i386; you are > crosscompiling if host != build arch).
=> Just explicitly set host == build E.g apply something similar to this: MYHOST=i586-pc-linux-gnu MYTARGET=${MYTARGET-${MYHOST} configure --build=${MYHOST} --host=${MYTARGET} Ralf