https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91879
--- Comment #34 from Stas Sergeev <stsp at users dot sourceforge.net> --- (In reply to jos...@codesourcery.com from comment #33) > to, you can also make your build system set all the variables such as CC > and CXX that are needed for the host). As well as AS, LD and all the rest? But that defeats the entire purpose of configure. I need it to work on my PC, on launchpad build-farm, and who knows where else. So I would need to write a supplementary configure script to just fill in these variables. OTOH the new option could affect it exactly the way that configure would treat the newly-built compiler as alien (as if $host!=$build) and yet get the unprefixed tools. And will not require me to evaluate the (im)proper --build with manual uname probes (in fact, I don't do uname probes, I instead grep it from the stage1 configure log and fix up with sed). Why not to fix the mess, it just seems like its broken literally everywhere we look in... (if the total lack of controlling switches can stand for being "broken").
