Re: "make distcheck" with a cross compiler

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Douglas,

* Douglas Phillipson wrote on Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:48:49PM CEST:
> I'm new to autoconf, I'll let you know that right up front.  It's a 
> wonderful build system and I can see it's going to save me tons of time 
> and effort.  I've built my first project with it and it works fine, even 
> with my cross compiler to "ARM", but I can't seem to do a "distcheck" of 
> course because the build system is x86 and I'm cross compiling to ARM. 
> How can I tell the build system NOT to try to run the binary when doing 
> distcheck so it will finish and create the nice gzipped tar file of my 
> ARM binaries?

Use
  make distcheck \
    DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--host=foo-bar-arm CFLAGS=... ..."
  
FWIW, this is an Automake question (so you know which manual this is
explained in ;-).

Cheers,
Ralf