Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:15:46PM +0100, Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: >> Steve Langasek wrote: >> >Well, you shouldn't pass --host *except* when cross-compiling; the >> >autotools-dev package shows how to do this. But at least --build is always >> >a sane thing to specify, and usually saves you from upstreams optimizing >> >for >> >the wrong architecture based on config.guess... > >> Why not? > > Because passing --host signals that you're cross-compiling, and you are > obviously not cross-compiling.
I'm one of the people who actually helped design the GNU Makefile and configure standards, and --host does not "signal that you're cross-compiling." What signals that you are cross-compiling is a disagreement between --host and --build. It was the explicit intention that you could configure a whole bunch of packages with one set of options; providing an option which is equivalent to what config.guess (etc) would guess and take does not pass a "signal" that you are cross-compiling. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
