On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:37:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > John Taylor reported that this patch fixes one of his problems in > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27349. It's been a while since I had > anything to do with Autoconf's cross-compiling support, so does this > look reasonable? The "cross_compiling" variable was added in a > considerably older version of Autoconf than we already require. > > 2009-09-10 Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> > > * configure.ac: Don't look for help2man when cross-compiling. Fixes > part of bug #27349. > > Index: configure.ac > =================================================================== > --- configure.ac (revision 2584) > +++ configure.ac (working copy) > @@ -147,7 +147,9 @@ > > # These are not a "must". > AC_PATH_PROG(RUBY, ruby) > -AC_PATH_PROG(HELP2MAN, help2man) > +if test "x$cross_compiling" = xno; then > + AC_PATH_PROG(HELP2MAN, help2man) > +fi
Autoconf documentation says you can test for $cross_compiling being set to "yes", but is unclear about the variable being defined or not when we're not cross-compiling. Maybe we should test "x$cross_compiling" != xyes instead? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
