This fixes a warning when cross-building:
checking for arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf-file... no
checking for file... file
configure: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet
find isn't platform specific and not usually installed with a host
triplet. So use AC_CHECK_PROG which differs from AC_CHECK_TOOL by not
expecting such a host triplet prefix.
---
Hello,
On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 06:32:26AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 25 Oct 2023 20:24, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > while cross-building a package I noticed a warning emitted by configure:
> >
> > ...
> > checking for arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf-file... no
> > checking for file... file
> > configure: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet
> >
> > This was added in commit da2e35273572 ("libtool: replace some references
> > to /usr/bin/file and /bin/sh") by using AC_CHECK_TOOL to find the file
> > program (included in libtool 2.4.7).
> >
> > I wonder if using AC_CHECK_PROG would be more appropriate here. Or is it
> > really expected that file is installed as a cross tool using a host
> > triplet prefix? The commit log doesn't mention anything in that
> > direction (and before that commit "/usr/bin/file" was used).
> >
> > I'm not familiar with libtool development, so didn't even try to prepare
> > a patch.
>
> AC_CHECK_PROG seems more appropriate
OK, so here comes a patch.
Best regards
Uwe
m4/libtool.m4 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/m4/libtool.m4 b/m4/libtool.m4
index 79a2451ef520..9a0a4d086a5f 100644
--- a/m4/libtool.m4
+++ b/m4/libtool.m4
@@ -8216,7 +8216,7 @@ AC_SUBST([DLLTOOL])
# ----------------
# Check for a file(cmd) program that can be used to detect file type and magic
m4_defun([_LT_DECL_FILECMD],
-[AC_CHECK_TOOL([FILECMD], [file], [:])
+[AC_CHECK_PROG([FILECMD], [file], [:])
_LT_DECL([], [FILECMD], [1], [A file(cmd) program that detects file types])
])# _LD_DECL_FILECMD
--
2.42.0
