On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:40:50AM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote: > > > crosscompilation unlike the /proc/cpuinfo thing and doesn't rely on > > > properly installed libraries and headers might possibly of interest for > > > building standalone software. > > > 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, > which may be different to the host and will certainly be different to the > target. In case of Linux/MIPS it could guess wether it's a little endian or big endian configuration and emit mips-unknown-gnu-linux or mipsel-unknown-gnu-linux that is taking away the burden of the user knowing about the right endianess for his target - specifying mips-linux as target should then be sufficient. Does that sound sane or would overriding the users explicitly give targetname (or even hostname for a native build) be considered a bad thing? Ralf
