>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Hello, Tom!
>>
>> > Pavel> AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP],[strip])
>> >
>> > Yes, I wasn't thinking. I've removed this.
>> >
>> > Ideally we'd have some way to tell autoconf, "if this package can be
>> > cross-compiled, then check for a cross `strip' as well". Maybe
>> > there's an ugly way to do this.
>>
>> Actually, I think that Automake is wrong assuming that AC_CHECK_TOOL
>> requires config.{guess,sub}. It's no longer true for the CVS Autoconf.
>>
>> The idea of AC_CHECK_TOOL is that if you are cross-compiling for e.g.
>> i386-aix, then configure should check for i386-aix-strip and for the
>> canonicalized form, i386-ibm-aix-strip. If the canonicalized form cannot
>> be found - no problem, don't check for it. Those who want to cross-compile
>> are supposed to be smarter than normal users - they'll fix it if it fails.
>> Not sure if Autoconf is doing exactly that, but at least configure runs
>> without asking for config.{guess,sub}.
Akim> Your explanation is very correct. AC_CHECK_TOOL only needs
Akim> host_alias, hence there was no reason to require AC_CANONICAL_*.
Has anyone a plan to change this in Automake?
Otherwise, as install-strip is concerned, another idea is to:
1) not call AM_PROG_INSTALL_STRIP from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
2) revert all `commenting' that has been done in AM_PROG_INSTALL_STRIP
3) ask the user to call AM_PROG_INSTALL_STRIP if she uses
AC_CANONICAL_HOST or AC_CANONICAL_TARGET (automake can
check for this, I guess).
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz
