Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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. > > That's the old way. Autoconf changed this in the current releases. Now, > specifying --host signals that you're cross-compiling, whether it > disagrees or not. > > Yes, this was not a backward compatible change. A lot of people were > upset about it. And yes, it was a change in the GNU Makefile and > configure standards.
I'm not sure this was appropriate. Autoconf may be the most frequent generator of configure scripts, but the standards for the operation of configure scripts are not written by autoconf. So, leaving aside the autoconf manual, did the actual GNU configure standards change? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
