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Re: current glibc vs debian sid
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:29:52PM +0200, Franz Sirl wrote:
> At 15:31 18.10.2002, Jack Howarth wrote:
> >Roland,
> > Well on a ppclinux box with RH 8.0 locally built rpms I get the
> >failure in configure using...
> >
> >GCC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O3" ../configure --prefix=/usr --enable-add-ons=yes
> >--withou
> >t-cvs --enable-kernel=2.2.5 --without-tls powerpc-redhat-linux
> >
> >which of course isn't using --host or --build. This form of the configure
> >command only passes if I manually create a powerpc-redhat-linux-gcc symlink.
>
> It's a long-standing bug in newer autoconf, even though the naked stating
> of 'ppc-redhat-linux' is supposed to be backwards compatible, it isn't.
>
> The closest possible emulation is "--host=ppc-redhat-linux
> --build=ppc-redhat-linux --program-prefix=''", but that still lacks the
> setting of $target_alias without triggering a cross-compile.
Shouldn't we then after running autoconf in the makefile fix the generated
configure by some sed command?
This sucks badly.
Jakub