On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:

> > Building for different targets is fairly irrelevant here; the issue is
> > building for different hosts, which is harder.
> 
> What about my suggestion of forcing GCC to use the gnulib functions by
> temporarily removing the system-wide functions? Would that be
> equivalent testing to building on a host that requires the libiberty
> version of a function?

That depends on the details of how the configure tests in question work; 
if they test whether calls to a function can be linked, the function will 
be detected as present even if the header has been removed.

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Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com

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