Re: [PATCH] Implement AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([DEFAULT-MODE]).

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Vincent Lefevre wrote on Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:17:06PM CEST:
> On 2008-09-04 08:24:57 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > GNU awk should be cross compilable, but also it has not, as far as I
> > know, yet updated to autotools which need an awk to be present.  Since
> > this is bound to happen at some point, if cross compilation is not an
> > option for some system, and neither is compiling an old gawk version
> > first etc.), then we need to discuss the situation;[...]

> I don't know if it is possible to cross-compile. The main problem is
> that the glibc is very old on the Zaurus (with Sharp's ROM): 2.2.2.

Why is the old glibc specifically a problem for cross compilation?

> But the best thing to do is probably to keep an old version of awk to
> bootstrap, then recompile a newer version.

FWIW, specifically for autotools, the oldest and broken-nest awk or
[gmn]awk you have should still work fine.  We explicitly try to ensure
this, so that things work smoothly even with, say, Solaris /bin/awk.
Failures to work are bugs we need to fix.

Cheers,
Ralf