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Re: Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> I don't see how this could be a side effect of Dan's patch (not that I
> looked very hard into it). I do know autoconf 2.5x is different from
> autoconf 2.13 in this regard (see node 'Hosts and Cross-Compilation'
> in the autoconf manual for the gory details), but I'd have thought
> that this change would have affected us a long time ago, when the gcc
> subdir switched to autoconf 2.5x. Is that not so?
That section describes how autoconf goes into cross-compilation mode (host
!= build, building a compiler that won't run on the system on which you
build it) and how that has changed. I don't see anything relevant to the
issue of how it decides whether the compiler being built is a
cross-compiler (host != target) or what names it would be installed under.
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