On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >> The advantage of setting --build correctly is that autoconf macros >> will use test against the triplet will work as expected. For instance >> AC_PROG_CC will search for gcc with the host triplet prefixed. > > Which is a side-effect originating from the bug above. > > configure scripts should be using the uncanonicalized versions of *_TOOLS. If you don't pass --build, config.guess is used and the triplet comes from uname. Either way, AC_PATH_TOOL is looking for canonical tools. I don't see a problem with using the triplet qualified tools on a multiarch system. -- Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list