Re: Arrange for --build to default to --host

2000-06-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 26, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Worse yet, Alexandre seems to believe we should do several small > incompatible changes Nope. I'm proposing a backward-compatible change that warns about behavior that's going to change in the future, and also accepts the new behavior,

Re: Arrange for --build to default to --host

2000-06-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 26, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26 Jun 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> We might also set cross_compiling=maybe if --host is specified but >> --build isn't, and then use the original cross_compiling test to >> decide. > But the old cross compile test did not work on sys

Re: Arrange for --build to default to --host

2000-06-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 26, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Jun 26, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 26 Jun 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Here's a patch that implements my proposal regarding the han

Re: Arrange for --build to default to --host

2000-06-26 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Mo" == Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mo> How about another option? Why don't we just skip a 2.5 release and Mo> call it 3.0? Just do that, and tomorrow there are several new Autoconves here and there :) I no longer think there will ever be a new major release. We have to live wi

Re: Arrange for --build to default to --host

2000-06-26 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> On Jun 26, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 26 Jun 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >>> Here's a patch that implements my proposal regarding the handling >>> of --build/--host options, assuming that Mo's patch

Re: Arrange for --build to default to --host

2000-06-26 Thread Mo DeJong
On 26 Jun 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > We might also set cross_compiling=maybe if --host is specified but > --build isn't, and then use the original cross_compiling test to > decide. But the old cross compile test did not work on systems where rld did not know how to find a lib the compiler li

Re: Arrange for --build to default to --host

2000-06-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 26, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26 Jun 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> Here's a patch that implements my proposal regarding the handling of >> --build/--host options, assuming that Mo's patch makes it. Ok to >> install? > So to do a cross build I would need to give bo

Re: Arrange for --build to default to --host

2000-06-26 Thread Mo DeJong
On 26 Jun 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > Here's a patch that implements my proposal regarding the handling of > --build/--host options, assuming that Mo's patch makes it. Ok to > install? So to do a cross build I would need to give both --build and --host? Could there at least be some sort of