On Wed, 26 May 2021 12:41:51 -0300
Érico Nogueira <eric...@disroot.org> wrote:

> 
> Yes, we really cross.

It doesn't matter because

> We always use the release tarballs, which already have the %_dis.h
> files. This explains why we haven't hit any issues.


> Anyway, couldn't you (re)use the distribution tarball generation stuff
> for cross setups from git master?

I can. But I haven't problems with building it "directly from VCS" too,
as you see. Nevertheless there are opinion that code from VCS
could be smoothly building without procedures behind scene.

> Otherwise this would add a
> dependency on autoconf-archive for anyone generating the configure
> script locally...

Well, anyone who generate configure locally has it. Otherwise it is a
big pain ;).

> I think a final version of this patch should
> document the autoconf-archive requirement, if it's merged.

May be addition of m4/ax_prog_cc_for_build.m4 make sense?

Best regards,

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