2012/1/10 Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tuesday 10 January 2012 03:38:03 Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> 2012/1/10 Eric Blake: >> > On 01/09/2012 03:46 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> >> AC_CANONICAL_HOST >> > >> > As documented in >> > https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Canonicalizing >> > , if you use AC_CANONICAL_*, then _you_ are responsible for providing >> > config.sub in the AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR (default '.') directory. You can >> > meet this requirement by using automake, or you can meet it by doing 'cp >> > /some/path/to/config.sub .' by hand. [Hint - if you built autoconf from >> > source, then your autoconf source tree includes those files under the >> > build-aux/ subdirectory] >> >> Thanks for the tip, I didn't know AC_CANONICAL_HOST was causing this. >> Since I only used this macro to get the OS name, I've replaced it with >> `uname -s`, and forget about config.sub and config.guess. > > oh god, please do not do that. that's the exact sort of thing you should > _never_ do. you've just broken any hope of properly cross-compiling your > package. Thanks for the tip, I've removed the `uname -s` hack and copied the necessary files. Also since the package is only available to NetBSD and Linux the hack would only prevent cross-compiling from Linux to NetBSD and viceversa. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
