> > Of course, this needs some refinement. ;-) Perhaps we need to run > > through $(CC_FOR_BUILD) -E or somesuch; cpp is no good, as it won't > > know all of the magic '*MIPS*' #defines. > HJ's patch didn't compile anything; it ran code through > $(CC_FOR_BUILD) -E :) I must admit, I missed that. But I definitely noticed that it created temporary files, which are more trouble than they're worth. The number of people running ./configure as root is frightening. Ben
