Re: Cross compiling texinfo-4.7

[Karl Berry]

    1) I think that the configure script could be switched to a ``tools only
    mode'' by an external variable, say TEXINFO_CONFIGURE_TOOLS.

Sorry, I'm lost at step one.  What does "tools only" mean?

By the way, I'm not clear why it is ever useful to cross compile
Texinfo.  It's not part of the compiler toolchain and it's certainly not
useful on embedded systems :).  On real systems, why not just compile it
natively?  Sorry for my ignorance ...