On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 15:04, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> The thing that comes immediately to mind, and which would be feasible
> for 2.70, is to not run _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT when cross-compiling.
That seems realistic to me. The hardcoded paths are not useful in a
cross environment in the slightest.
>
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 9:39 AM Ross Burton wrote:
>
> AC_PATH_X and friends are unusual in autoconf in that they
> *explicitly* look into /usr/ for files (see _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT).
> Notable this is the *only* macro in autoconf that explicitly looks
> into /usr.
>
> To write the logic out in Englis
