Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Specifying --build (was: make curl fails)

[Mark Brand]

>
> Mmmm, not sure. As you mentioned earlier, config.guess can be in
> different places, and both will fail if execute bits aren't set (for
> whatever reason). I'd probably keep a recent version in /tools or /src
> and invoke it with:
>
>    --build=`sh $(TOP_DIR)/[tools|src]/config.guess`
>
> This could be wrapped in a new Makefile variable:
>    --build=... \
>    --host=... \
>    --prefix=... \
>    [--enable-static \]
>    [--disable-shared]
>

It's not really necessary to run config.guess again for each package
is it? We could just do it once, say, as part of gcc.mk, and store the
value somewhere. What do you think?

Mark