Am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 03:12 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm one of the people who actually helped design the GNU Makefile and > > configure standards, and --host does not "signal that you're > > cross-compiling." What signals that you are cross-compiling is a > > disagreement between --host and --build. > > That's the old way. Autoconf changed this in the current releases. Now, > specifying --host signals that you're cross-compiling, whether it > disagrees or not. > > Yes, this was not a backward compatible change. A lot of people were > upset about it. And yes, it was a change in the GNU Makefile and > configure standards. But see the current Autoconf manual: > > `--host=HOST-TYPE' > the type of system on which the package will run. By default it > is the same as the build machine. Specifying it enables the > cross-compilation mode.
That's insane. However, it doen't say anything about the sitution of --build and --host are used and both contain the same value. Work-around for the compiler could be to ship with symbolic links, e.g. gcc -> gcc-4.0 -> i686-linux-gcc-4.0 Now autoconf has no problem in finding the proper compiler even if not really cross-compiling, does it? HS -- Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verfügbar: http://www.hendrik-sattler.de oder über pgp.net PingoS - Linux-User helfen Schulen: http://www.pingos.org
