Hi, "checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... universal" is not the correct answer on powerpc-ibm-aix. The question is not really correct either (yes/no question, answer is neither yes nor no), but that is beside the point. As far as I know, it is only possible to built differently endian output on Mac OS X with Apple's gcc. Would a patch to limit the check for universal to when __APPLE_CC__ is defined be accepted? xlc on powerpc-aix defines __BIG_ENDIAN__. While this is normally not a problem (the define in config.h will end up correct), it can be an issue when the result of the test is used as in Glib: case xyes in x$ac_cv_c_bigendian) g_byte_order=G_BIG_ENDIAN g_bs_native=BE g_bs_alien=LE ;; *) g_byte_order=G_LITTLE_ENDIAN g_bs_native=LE g_bs_alien=BE ;; esac This means that glib thinks powerpc-aix is little-endian. On darwin, I would expect to have to deal with universal binary issues, it came as a bit of a surprise on aix though. Peter -- Peter O'Gorman pogma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
