No further comment on this old bug report, so I'm taking the liberty of
closing it.
gzip doesn't do much of anything special when cross-compiling; it's like
other GNU or Autoconf-using programs. If your cross-compiler doesn't
output to stderr on error, or outputs to stderr even when there isn't an
error, that can confuse the process (with gzip and with other programs).
So you
Hello,
I have been attempting to crosscompile gzip for a linux system that uses
the musl libc using clang, and I have come across an issue while
attempting to configure gzip.
I set CC="cross-clang", and run ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64.
cross-clang is just a wrapper script that sets th
