Re: [RFC] improving support for building native tools in cross setups

2014-01-29 Thread Jack Kelly
Yann Dirson writes: > It is not uncommon for software packages to build tools to be executed > at build time, to generate data files or more input files to compile. > > ... > > For the second point, it would seem a good idea at some point to > support a "native_" prefix, so setting eg. "native_PRO

[RFC] improving support for building native tools in cross setups

2014-01-29 Thread Yann Dirson
Hello, It is not uncommon for software packages to build tools to be executed at build time, to generate data files or more input files to compile. Unless I miss something, the current autotools does not help much dealing with this for cross-compilation: * autoconf only probes for host CC as soo