Re: --build and --host

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:06:40PM -0300, 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?

I think you just want to specify --build, no?  
Why do you think config.guess has to be modified?

And if you want to set up to allow cross compiling, you can do that by
looking at DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE, as suggested by Marcus Brinkmann
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200202/msg00353.html]
--- though he got "host" and "build" reversed.

I still think that you can fix the "build" problem and leave "host" until later.
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200202/msg00832.html]

-Steve

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