On Tuesday 10 January 2012 15:35:58 Roger Pau Monné wrote: > 2012/1/10 Mike Frysinger: > > 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#Canonicaliz > >> > ing , 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. the much more common case is cross-compiling for the same OS, but different architectures -mike
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