Re: LT_PATH_NM uses too strict a check

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, Ximin Luo wrote:

> On 24/12/10 17:07, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > It seems to me that you should use parameters in CFLAGS to tell the
> > compiler to produce code for the desired CPU sub-type rather than to
> > invoke configure as if you were doing a cross-compilation.
>
> isn't part of the point of libtool, to avoid doing this?

Libtool is all about creating libraries, and particularly shared 
libraries.

> > Cross-compilation requires a toolset configured in a particular way.
>
> i'm only "cross-compiling" to a different CPU variant. the base instruction
> set, binary format, etc, everything else is the same.

What you are doing is not normal behavior.  A cross-compile is a build 
in which the built binaries are not run on the build host and a 
different set of build tools must be used.

Bob
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