(toplevel) Fix dramatic breakage for ordinary crosses (related to program_transform_name)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 28, 2002, DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:

>> > But it would be nice if autoconf managed this problem for us.
>> 
>> It can't.  Consider that the config.cache file specified in the
>> command line may be in a directory that is not writable,

> That's a different type of problem.  Does autoconf allow for failure
> to write to config.cache?

It checks whether the file is writable, and then it overwrites the
file.  Whether the directory is writable doesn't matter.  It just
makes it harder to choose the location of the lock file.

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