On Nov 18, 2007 10:11 AM, Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2007, at 9:02 AM, NightStrike wrote: > > > I hit another snag in my project. I am building a runtime as a > > component of a cross compiler. Configure has to determine the various > > tools to use (denoted by passing --host=xx to configure), and I use > > all of the AC_PROG_XX macros. This may be an autoconf issue instead > > of automake, but what happens is that configure tries to test for the > > default extention of exe files. The compiler doesn't make exe files, > > however, because there is no runtime (chicken, egg). > > > > Will automake be ok if I just do AC_CHECK_TOOL for gcc and g++ instead > > of AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CXX? > > Can't you populate the right cache variables to set the results you > want without going through the tests? It's a kludge, but it's less > kludgy than what Ralf suggested, or so I think.
I'm not really sure what that means, nor how to do it. Are you suggesting distributing a configure cache? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of using configure?
