> From: Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 08:56:10 -0800 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I did have the thought that it would be very usefull to have the > > configure tools recognize that you are doing a cross compile say > > to PPC and have it set up default "sizes" etc based on known PPC > > settings.
The latest Autoconf can calculate the sizes of C objects even when cross-compiling. It does so without using AC_TRY_RUN. So this much at least should work without any special help. > Many's the time I've tried to install a package, run into > flagrant use of AC_TRY_RUN, and gotten out my voodoo doll > to poke pins into the head of whoever wrote the configure.in > that used AC_TRY_RUN. Now, now, it's OK to use AC_TRY_RUN if there's a reasonable fallback when not cross-compiling. (Please don't stick pins into my doll's head! :-) > 4. Some people with favorable envirnments have modified AC_TRY_RUN > to actually run code on the target; I seem to recall somewhat submitting a patch recently along those lines.
