On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Ben Elliston wrote: > > Hmm, I don't think config.guess is ever used for cross-compilation as > > the script's purpose is to guess the host and you need to specify one > > explicitly for a cross-compilation to happen. Anyway it's saner not > > to use build system properties to guess host system ones. > > You're close, but not quite correct. In a cross-compilation environment, > the job of config.guess is to determine the type of the build system, It actually depends on the autoconf version -- historically it was backwards. Still, even if config.guess is used to determine the build system, the script need not care about the host, so there's no problem with the cross-compilation (apart from purity). > which may be different to the host and will certainly be different to the > target. Not necessarily, although unlikely, indeed. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
