On May 17, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree with Paul any mismatch should be an error.
I vote for *skipping* the cross-compilation test in case --host is
specified. The reason is simple:
myi586% configure CC="gcc -mcpu=i686" --host i686-pc-linux-gnu
The program used by configure to detect cross compilers is very
unlikely to be complex enough to use i686-specific instructions.
So, on an i586, configure would complain it's not cross compiling.
Let's just trust the user in this case.
I agree we could have a hard error in case the user doesn't specify
--host but an executable produced by the compiler won't run.
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