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Re: [RFC] GNU autoconf and dpkg-architecture



Am  4.02.02 um 22:29:58 schrieb Steve M. Robbins:
> One thing that "configure" does differently when you specify --host=foo
> is that it will use "foo-gcc" in preference to "gcc", and similar with
> other build tools.  Presumably no-one has a compiler named "foo-gcc",
> but you never know.  There could be nasty surprises in store.

I have. I regularly provide Windows versions of some tools we develop by
cross-compiling them with mingw32. It has a whole bunch of binaries that
look like foo-gcc.

Bye,
    Mike

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