On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 05:23:21PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2017-01-03 15:30 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 03:51:03PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >> Helmut Grohne suggests to always pass both, even if equal. Probably > >> to eliminate an entire error class, even if not necessary. *shrug* > >> If this works, all the better. > > > > /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz claims that it causes > > modern autoconf to switch to cross-compiling mode even if the values are > > equal (though I haven't tracked down the exact details of this). > > That's not quite correct, but many people have been wondering about it. > You can see my own ramblings in #682780[1], on the upstream mailing I > received a reply stating that cross-compiling mode is not to be entered > in this case[2].
Thanks for the clarification! I'm still happy to leave this up to debhelper rather than specifically overriding it in individual packages, I think. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]