Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] make curl failes

[Tony Theodore]

On 27 November 2011 00:28, Mark Brand <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Tony Theodore <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 26 November 2011 23:46, Matthias Gehre <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> What exactly is the problem with wine? Could one explain that further?
>>
>> ./configure uses runtime tests to determine if it's cross-compiling or
>> not. Since these tests will succeed if wine is installed, we sometimes
>> have to force the cross-compiling logic (when setting --host isn't
>> enough). There's no real consistency to this, some packages
>> cross-build correctly in spite of the detection, some don't.
>
> Do you happen to know where this runtime test comes from in the curl
> configure script (assuming it's still there)?
>
> Mark

Unfortunately, no. The last time I looked into it, it seemed to be
part of the standard autotools boilerplate - that is, always available
without having to explicitly write something in configure.ac.

Cheers,

Tony