From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 01:35:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Is detecting endianness at compile-time unworkable?
Message-ID: <20180801013524.4u5ioghtc2trhsqd@dcvr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh8kgfuba.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Well, having said all that, I do not think I personally mind if
> ./configure learned to include a "compile small program and run it
> to determine byte order on the build machine" as part of "we make a
> reasonable effort" as long as it cleanly excludes cross building
> case (and the result is made overridable just in case we misdetect
> the "cross-ness" of the build).

No need to run the program for cross-compiles, grepping a object
file seems to work for autoconf:

	git clone https://git.sv.gnu.org/git/autoconf.git
	$PAGER autoconf/lib/autoconf/c.m4
	# look for "BIGenDianSyS"