Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59
Mike Stump
mrs@apple.com
Thu Feb 8 03:29:00 GMT 2007
On Feb 7, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> With this patch, configuring with --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --
> host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu all specified
> explicitly results in i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc and i686-pc-linux-gnu-
> i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc being installed but no plain "gcc".
> Installing i686-pc-linux-gnu-i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc is clearly wrong
> and existing practice is that "gcc" is installed whenever the host
> and target are the same, regardless of the build system and
> regardless of what was or was not specified explicitly.
As I recall, this was previously discussed and an intentional change
in behavior in autoconf. The solution is to build with just --
host=i686-pc-linux-gnu.
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