Re: Another snag.. extension detection

[Benoit Sigoure]

On Nov 18, 2007, at 9:02 AM, NightStrike wrote:

> I hit another snag in my project.  I am building a runtime as a
> component of a cross compiler.  Configure has to determine the various
> tools to use (denoted by passing --host=xx to configure), and I use
> all of the AC_PROG_XX macros.  This may be an autoconf issue instead
> of automake, but what happens is that configure tries to test for the
> default extention of exe files.  The compiler doesn't make exe files,
> however, because there is no runtime (chicken, egg).
>
> Will automake be ok if I just do AC_CHECK_TOOL for gcc and g++ instead
> of AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CXX?

Can't you populate the right cache variables to set the results you  
want without going through the tests?  It's a kludge, but it's less  
kludgy than what Ralf suggested, or so I think.

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Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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