> :-P * * * Seriously: Should the configure script run tests
> via rsh/ssh? And
> what if the target platform can't be reached remotely? I've
> never seen such
> an autoconf trick before...
Just provide a script that can be run (by hand) on the target platform
and a way to port the results back to the host platform. This is
currently what we do for cross-compiling GHC (see the new instructions
in the Building Guide for unregisterised bootstrapping of GHC), but
currently we make some broad (and dodgy) assumptions:
- we assume that config.mk pertains the the host system
- we assume that config.h pertains to the target system
fixing this up would be good.
Also the configure script can't currently handle different values for
--target and --host: doing so doesn't look too hard.
Cheers,
Simon
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