Re: [patch] 4.7: Changes to permit cross-compiling

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

Hello Stepan,

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 03:03:24PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> >  To minimize changes, in the case of cross-compiling `makeinfo' and
> > `install-info' programs already installed in the build system are used.  
> 
> I think this may cause various bugs.  What could the (possibly very) old
> copy of makeinfo do?

 Good point -- it may be worth checking the installed version and require 
it to be the same as the one being built.

> You probably have to do the full bootstrap and compile makeinfo and
> install-info twice: for the build host and for the target host.

 Please don't confuse nomenclature -- obviously you mean the build system
and the host system.  The term of target system is only defined for tools
dealing with assembly or binary code, like compilers or debuggers and the
system software runs on is always the host system.

> Or perhaps you should check and compile twice only if you are
> cross-compiling.

 Either way I think it's an overkill.

> If you are brave enough to do this in automake, I think it would be nice.
> (But perhaps you should wait before the maintainer, Karl Berry, decides
> whether he wants it this way.)

 This should be doable the same way GCC, binutils, etc. do that.

  Maciej