Package: autotools-dev Version: 20120608.1 The following paragraph from /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz is not correct:
,---- | BTW, autoconf 2.52+ should enter cross-compiling mode if --host is | specified. It will build in cross-compiling mode even if build and host | type are the same (this information comes directly from autoconf upstream). | This goes against what is in the docs of autoconf 2.59, and it may be a bug | somewhere. `---- In fact, if both --build and --host are specified and are identical, autoconf does not enter cross-compiling mode, as can be seen in /usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/general.m4 (the code has been there since autoconf 2.50): ,---- | if test "x$host_alias" != x; then | if test "x$build_alias" = x; then | cross_compiling=maybe | elif test "x$build_alias" != "x$host_alias"; then | cross_compiling=yes | fi | fi `---- The autoconf manual used to be a bit unclear about this in versions before 2.69; commit 303e507c2783bb6c43c7c5be2467eaa8a57dadd9 clarified the situation. This also means that it's actually safe to unconditionally pass "--build $(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --host $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)" to configure, no matter whether you're cross-building or not (specifying only --host and no --build is an error, though). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.4.6-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
