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Re: Autoconf will (not?) detect cross-tools unprefixed
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: Autoconf will (not?) detect cross-tools unprefixed |
Date: |
Wed, 3 Sep 2008 08:01:22 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-07-21) |
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 07:12:07AM CEST:
>
> Should the "Specifying Names" section of the manual give an
> example of how to name tools in order to avoid the warning?
Sounds good, yes.
> Does anyone have a quick example of where using a non-prefixed
> tool name leads to bugs?
./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i586-mingw32msvc
If configure finds i586-mingw32msvc-gcc, but only unprefixed ar and
ranlib, things are going to break pretty quickly. ;-)
> Maybe the warning message should
> give a link to the manual on how to avoid the warning?
Dunno. (It would probably help if somebody who doesn't understand the
warning addresses this ;-)
Cheers,
Ralf