From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:39:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Provide pessimistic defaults for cross compilation tests.
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901200037510.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090119203400.GA3539@ins.uni-bonn.de>

Hi,

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> In a cross compile setup, configure tests that run programs
> cannot be executed; in that case, provide pessimistic default
> values.

You may want to note in the subject that this patch is about configure.

How do you deal with the hardcoded limitation that uname_S is defined to 
be the output of "uname -s" on the _build_ system, and that quite a large 
part of the Makefile sets variables dependent on this?

IOW are you certain that configure (with your patch) will override _all_ 
uname_S dependent settings?

Ciao,
Dscho