Re: Cross compile problem.

2000-07-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 9, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So config.guess is getting messed up because it is trying to use my > cross compiler to figure out the build system type. I had told you this would happen in some cases. In such cases, you have to explicitly specify --build. > I think thi

Re: Cross compile problem.

2000-07-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 9, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My real question is, why do I need to do this? If autoconf > knows that it is cross compiling then it should know to > set the HOST_CC (or BUILD_CC) to gcc or cc. How about just AC_SH_UNSETting CC before running config.guess? Then, config.

Re: [patch] acgeneral.m4 (dirname usage)

2000-07-09 Thread Mark E.
[To: line drastically trimmed] The below is all true. I can only add the Cygwin uses a leading '//' specially (as Posix allows) to encode drivenames for their Unix emulation. For example, 'c:/windows' can and will be encoded as '//c/windows'. So preserving the first double-slash would a good t

Re: [patch] acgeneral.m4 (dirname usage)

2000-07-09 Thread Chris Faylor
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 08:27:00PM -0400, Mark E. wrote: >[To: line drastically trimmed] > >The below is all true. I can only add the Cygwin uses a leading '//' >specially (as Posix allows) to encode drivenames for their Unix emulation. >For example, 'c:/windows' can and will be encoded as '//c/

Re: [patch] acgeneral.m4 (dirname usage)

2000-07-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 9, 2000, "Mark E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The below is all true. I can only add the Cygwin uses a leading '//' > specially (as Posix allows) to encode drivenames for their Unix emulation. Not any more (i.e., this is now deprecated). The new recommended Unix-line pathname for c:/