# change to allow cross compile ARM and MIPS

1 messages from 2015-12-03 to 2015-12-03. Participants: Ronny Borchert.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/40930

## Ronny Borchert, 2015-12-03 20:44

Subject: change to allow cross compile ARM and MIPS
Message-ID: <loom.20151203T213355-444@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20151203T213355-444%40post.gmane.org

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I was trying to build git for MIPS. And found that configure.ac will 
compile some stuff on the host machine during configure step. So I am not 
sure how the inventor wants that it work.
My solution was to remove the parts with ac_cv_fread_reads_directories and 
ac_cv_snprintf_returns_bogus from configure.ac.

Because it seems that it is not enough to use arguments as described here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Cross_002dCompilation
.html#Cross_002dCompilation

I mean would it be possible to specifiy both from outside?

i.e.
./configure ac_cv_fread_reads_directories=yes 
ac_cv_snprintf_returns_bogus=yes ...

This should overwrite any try of test with compile, so that any cross 
compile will build.

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