On 3/14/24 7:48 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > For completeness I should add that the above check can be > overridden if cross-compiling or whatever like: > > ./configure utils_cv_ieee_16_bit_supported=yes > utils_cv_brain_16_bit_supported=yes
Ah, thanks. I wasn't aware of this. > Interesting. > Perhaps this is something that could be configured separately > on the build system, through something like binfmt_misc ? It has been a while, but IIRC on Debian GNU/Linux: $ sudo apt install binfmt-support wine-binfmt would allow you to run QEMU and Windows binaries similar to a normal program, e.g. './emulated-program' would run QEMU or Wine. I assume other distributions have similar packages. I typically used this for CMake cross-compiling instead of setting CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING_EMULATOR. Then you could also run test programs that were built as if they were native programs which was nice. I'd have to look at Autoconf's sources, but I'd imagine something similar could be done there. You'd just have to check if binfmt is supported and that cross-compiled binaries could be run. Binfmt is Linux specific though right? Allowing the user to pass an emulator explicitly would be more portable in that case. I am willing to look into it more if it seems beneficial. Collin
