Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > And, as an aside, the reason we can't easily make it better ourselves is > because the build process for git.git doesn't have a facility to run > code to detect this type of stuff (the configure script is always > optional). So we can't just run this test ourselves. It won't help those who cross-compile anyway. I thought we declared "we make a reasonable effort to guess the target endianness from the system header by inspecting usual macros, but will not aim to cover every system on the planet---instead there is a knob to tweak it for those on exotic platforms" last time we discussed this?
