Re: distcheck and canonical_*

[NightStrike]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Steffen Dettmer wrote on Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:21:32AM CET:
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:55 PM, NightStrike wrote:
>> > When doing a make distcheck, why is for instance the --host option not
>> > propagated to configure without explicitly setting
>> > DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS?
>>
>> erm... isn't --host enabling cross-compiling?
>> And when cross-compiling, make check always fails with some
>> "cannot execute binary" or so, so distcheck would always fail?
>
> NightStrike's package is very specialized: by default it will run
> on 64-bit Windows only, because it's part of the support package
> for MinGW64 (or so I assume).  So, since the package already requires
> a cross compilation environment, it might as well also require an
> emulator to be able to execute tests for a successful distcheck.
> wine comes to mind for this, together with binfmt-support to
> automatically execute w32 binaries using wine.

Correct.  And 64-bit Wine actually works pretty well.