Re: [patch] 4.7: Changes to permit cross-compiling

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Maciej,
  thank you for your bug report.

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 03:03:24PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  To minimize changes, in the case of cross-compiling `makeinfo' and
> `install-info' programs already installed in the build system are used.  

I think this may cause various bugs.  What could the (possibly very) old
copy of makeinfo do?

You probably have to do the full bootstrap and compile makeinfo and
install-info twice: for the build host and for the target host.

Or perhaps you should check and compile twice only if you are
cross-compiling.

If you are brave enough to do this in automake, I think it would be nice.
(But perhaps you should wait before the maintainer, Karl Berry, decides
whether he wants it this way.)

Have a nice day,
        Stepan