Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59

Paolo Bonzini paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch
Thu Feb 8 12:59:00 GMT 2007


> Likewise - if building compilers for the same target and multiple hosts it 
> seems at least nonintuitive that --target must be specified for most hosts 
> but must not be specified for the one host that's the same as the target.  
> And will target default to host in that case (if you specify host but not 
> target) for 2.13?

IIRC, the problem is actually specifying --host, not --target.  If you 
configure with just --build --target, it should work right.  Still, I'd 
prefer to not change the semantics of this.

Paolo



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