RE: --build and --host

[Dan Kegel]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>It also means Debian will need to fork config.guess 
>permanently so as to force autoconf stuff to build using 
>the correct host arch (since there seems to be no way to 
>sepecify a build architecture without entering
>cross-compiling mode or risking weird sidefects).  Did I get that right?

That sounds awful, doesn't it?

Could you lay out the scenario a bit more? 
It could be that cross-compilation mode, whatever that is,
works just as well as native mode.  What breaks
if you specify --host?

- Dan