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Re: Autoconf does not support cross compilation.
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Mike Frysinger |
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Re: Autoconf does not support cross compilation. |
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Fri, 10 Mar 2017 02:02:09 -0500 |
On 10 Mar 2017 09:03, Basin Ilya wrote:
> Some authors indeed forget about cross compilation when they publish
> their m4 to autoconf-archive.
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> Good example is byte order check aka endianness. Before endian.h one way
> to check it was to run a program. But the cross-compile alternative was
> to grep the binary for a magic byte sequence without running.
there is no reason to do any ad-hoc detecting of endianness anymore.
use the standard autoconf AC_C_BIGENDIAN macro.
-mike
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