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commit fbec57294abd097fdc5894e0ec0d0133a0b5445b
Author: Jehan <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Oct 2 18:53:50 2013 +1300

    cross-compiling: handling modern platforms able to run foreign binaries.
    
    * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_CROSS):
    When only --host is set, and no --build, but in the end, the resulting
    computed $build and $host are different, set $cross_compiling = yes.
    Indeed we can't rely only on a successful test program run, because false
    positives occur on some platforms. In particular modern GNU/Linux
    distributions set Wine to automatically handle Windows binaries.
    Consequently $cross_compiling gets set to "no" even though we are in an
    obvious cross-compilation case.
    (tiny change)

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Summary of changes:
 lib/autoconf/lang.m4 |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/autoconf/lang.m4 b/lib/autoconf/lang.m4
index b8cbe76..434a0e9 100644
--- a/lib/autoconf/lang.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/lang.m4
@@ -592,11 +592,21 @@ ac_exeext=$ac_cv_exeext
 # detect cross-compiling on Blue Gene.  Note also that AC_COMPUTE_INT
 # requires programs that create files when not cross-compiling, so it
 # is safe and not a bad idea to check for this capability in general.
+#
+# Another false negative would occur on many modern linux distributions,
+# which would have Wine run automatically for Windows binaries. This is
+# a default configuration on several Debian-derivated distributions for
+# instance (see `update-binfmts`).
+# As a consequence the simple test program would run without errors,
+# even though we are on an obvious cross-compilation case and further
+# more complicated tests would fail.
 m4_define([_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_CROSS],
 [# Check that the compiler produces executables we can run.  If not, either
 # the compiler is broken, or we cross compile.
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether we are cross compiling])
-if test "$cross_compiling" != yes; then
+if test "$cross_compiling" = maybe && test "x$build" != "x$host"; then
+  cross_compiling=yes
+elif test "$cross_compiling" != yes; then
   _AC_DO_VAR(ac_link)
   if _AC_DO_TOKENS([./conftest$ac_cv_exeext]); then
     cross_compiling=no


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