appending to DEPENDENCIES

2010-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
I just caused a build regression in libvirt because of my misunderstanding about dependencies. Right now, either you use foo_DEPENDENCIES and have to list everything yourself, or you omit it, and automake does a good job. But what about the case where you want automake to do its automatic depende

cross-compiling but keeping one target native

2010-05-14 Thread Natalie Tasman
I'm working on a build system with autotools. I'd like to cross-compile, building a mingw/windows executable from linux. So far, my system works well with the --host option (and appropriate cross tools installed, from the mingw-cross-env project.) I have one target which is actually a utility us