On Mon, 6 May 2002 00:12:38 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Clark)
wrote:

> Cross building means cross configuring, surely? How does a cross Configure
> determine what the target can do, when it is running on the build host?
> [As other programs are able to cross build, what magic do they use?]

I've seen docs which imply "scp + ssh" (or "ftp + rsh", or whatever) to
copy intermediate test programs to the runtime platform, execute them,
and copy the results back to the Configure platform and analyse them.

Cheers,
Philip

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