On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:34:52AM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote: > > > 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. I don't want to assume $(CC_FOR_BUILD) can take - as input. H.J.
