On Friday 11 August 2006 3:57 pm, Rüdiger Ranft wrote: > is there any way to get configure detect a compiler for the build host > and the target, so that on the build host can programs compiled and run > to build some of the target source codes? There are a number of examples around, showing how this may be achieved. One such may be found in this autoconfiscated variant of `man'; (compare the `tools' directory to the rest of the build, and note how this is configured by the `MAN_AC_CONFIG_NATIVE' macro in the top level aclocal.m4): http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/man-1.6-mingw-beta-1-src.tar.gz?download HTH, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf