Re: Long-term mass bug filing for crossbuild support
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:07:54PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Hadn't this been fixed quite some time ago ? Or wasn't it something with
> --target ? Because I've been using --build and --host for a long time
> with no problem.
The autoconf docs say(*):
`--host=HOST-TYPE'
[...] Specifying it enables the cross-compilation mode.
It does not matter if the argument of --host equals the argument of
--build; you're still cross-compiling as far as autoconf/automake is
concerned.
Maybe you're mixing it with a different issue, involving the same
parameters:
For historical reasons, passing `--host' also changes the build
type. Therefore, whenever you specify `--host', be sure to
specify `--build' too. This will be fixed in the future.
Gabor
(*) If someone thinks "boo, but the autoconf docs are non-free", NEWS.gz
also contains:
Emphasizes that `cross-compilation' == `--host is given'.
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