Hi,
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 01:12:21PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:33:06PM CET:
> > Moreover, the whole compatibility code with cross_compiling=maybe
> > was already present in Autoconf 2.50 released almost 6 years ago.
> > So I guess it might be time to delete it.
>
> FWIW, I disagree. There is still a small but significant user base that
> uses Autoconf-2.13; GCC is still in the process of moving to 2.59.
>
> Let's revisit this issue once 2 GCC *releases* have happened that do not
> employ 2.13 any more, please. [...]
sound very reasonable. Thanks for correcting my path.
So only the correction in the manual remains, see the attached patch.
(I also decided to remove the comment about other than
Autoconf-generated configure scripts, since the are rare.)
What do you think?
Have a nice day,
Stepan
2007-01-15 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): `--host' does not
change the build type.
Index: doc/autoconf.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.1125
diff -u -r1.1125 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi 8 Jan 2007 19:54:10 -0000 1.1125
+++ doc/autoconf.texi 15 Jan 2007 13:11:15 -0000
@@ -15511,7 +15511,7 @@
@section Specifying the System Type
@cindex System type
-Like other @acronym{GNU} @command{configure} scripts, Autoconf-generated
+Autoconf-generated
@command{configure} scripts can make decisions based on a canonical name
for the system type, which has the form:
@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED], where @var{os} can be
@@ -15544,8 +15544,8 @@
If you mean to override the result of @command{config.guess}, use
@option{--build}, not @option{--host}, since the latter enables
-cross-compilation. For historical reasons, passing @option{--host} also
-changes the build type. Therefore, whenever you specify @option{--host},
+cross-compilation. For historical reasons,
+whenever you specify @option{--host},
be sure to specify @option{--build} too; this will be fixed in the
future. So, to enter cross-compilation mode, use a command like this
