On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > * Steffen Dettmer wrote on Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:21:32AM CET: >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:55 PM, NightStrike wrote: >> > When doing a make distcheck, why is for instance the --host option not >> > propagated to configure without explicitly setting >> > DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS? >> >> erm... isn't --host enabling cross-compiling? >> And when cross-compiling, make check always fails with some >> "cannot execute binary" or so, so distcheck would always fail? > > NightStrike's package is very specialized: by default it will run > on 64-bit Windows only, because it's part of the support package > for MinGW64 (or so I assume). So, since the package already requires > a cross compilation environment, it might as well also require an > emulator to be able to execute tests for a successful distcheck. > wine comes to mind for this, together with binfmt-support to > automatically execute w32 binaries using wine.
Correct. And 64-bit Wine actually works pretty well.
