Re: Patch for new --build and --host semantics

2000-07-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 5, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Jul 2000, Akim Demaille wrote: >> > "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Alexandre> This is not true. Akim committed the patch without Alexandre> updating the documentation. >> >> Right :( Could someon

Re: Patch for new --build and --host semantics

2000-07-05 Thread Mo DeJong
On 5 Jul 2000, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alexandre> This is not true. Akim committed the patch without > Alexandre> updating the documentation. > > Right :( Could someone try to fix that? I don't have time now, and > in addi

RE: Patch for new --build and --host semantics

2000-07-05 Thread Mo DeJong
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > > i) if --host is specified but --build isn't, we use the old > > compile-link-and-execute test to determine whether we're cross > > compiling or not > > Here I think Mo has bring an interesting, and useful IMNSHO, idea: if --host > is given AND we

RE: Patch for new --build and --host semantics

2000-07-05 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 1:46 PM > To: Mo DeJong > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Patch for new --build and --host semantics > > > > The point was to not assume

Re: Patch for new --build and --host semantics

2000-07-05 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> This is not true. Akim committed the patch without Alexandre> updating the documentation. Right :( Could someone try to fix that? I don't have time now, and in addition, I feel incompetent.

Re: Patch for new --build and --host semantics

2000-07-04 Thread Mo DeJong
On 4 Jul 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > Can you point to any configure.in code for which this makes any > difference? Remember, we're just not setting build_alias=$host_alias > any more. We won't be assuming cross-compilation just because they > happen to be different, in this case. There is n

Re: Patch for new --build and --host semantics

2000-07-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 4, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4 Jul 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jul 4, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > configure: WARNING: For backwards compatibility, --build will be set to --host >> > if a cross compiler can not be found >> >> This

Re: Patch for new --build and --host semantics

2000-07-04 Thread Mo DeJong
On 4 Jul 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jul 4, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > configure: WARNING: For backwards compatibility, --build will be set to --host > > if a cross compiler can not be found > > This is not true. Akim committed the patch without updating the >

Re: Patch for new --build and --host semantics

2000-07-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 4, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > configure: WARNING: For backwards compatibility, --build will be set to --host > if a cross compiler can not be found This is not true. Akim committed the patch without updating the documentation. Now, --build is guessed unless explic