On Oct 24, 2002, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | % ./configure --host=`tools/config.guess` > | configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. > | If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. [...]
> | checking whether we are cross compiling... no > | ^^^^ > | > | configure didn't found a cross compiler, so it assumes a native > | build :( > | > | Is this some sort of backward compatibility heuristic that is > | planned for removal? When? > Whenever people think we are ready... > I am fine with removing the old scheme for 2.55. I'd like to have an > opinion from Alexandre Oliva (Hi pal!). Hi, Akim! Long time! :-) For whatever my opinion is worth at such a late stage of the discussion, I don't think this should be removed in the next 5 years or so. This kind of thing needs a lot of time to phase out, given how pervasive it is. For at least as long as you can still find a lot of code out there that uses autoconf 2.13, you shouldn't really drop the compatibility layer from 2.5x, otherwise you prevent someone from putting together a collection of packages that configure with both versions of autoconf. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer
