GNU autoconf configure script on cross-compiling to nearly identical target platform

2013-01-29 Thread Wirawan Purwanto
In the GNU autoconf-generated configure script, there is a variable called "cross_compiling". This will be set to "yes" when you cross-compile. Now in most cases this is detected by the mechanism there, for example if we cross-compile from linux to mingw, or from amd64 to an arm machine. But there

Re: GNU autoconf configure script on cross-compiling to nearly identical target platform

2013-01-29 Thread Paul Eggert
On 01/29/2013 01:18 PM, Wirawan Purwanto wrote: > I believe that in all cases, they will give > the same "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" build and target host triplets. How about if you use a different triple for the compute node? "x86_64-wm-linux-gnu", say. __