Re: Cross compiling texinfo-4.7

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 05:13:48PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>     This patch should make it much more robust.
> 
> Thanks, I installed it (modulo commentary).

I looked at the result in CVS.  I found one bug and two cosmetic problems.
See the patch attached.

Let me explain the bug:
(I suppose the cosmetic changes need no explanation.)

autoconf generated configure doesn't allow to configure a package ``out of
the source tree'' if it is already configured in the main source tree.

When we are configuring cross compile _in the src dir_, we first run
an ``out of src dir'' configure (in $native_tools) and then fininsh the
configure in the src. dir.
If we re-configure this configured package, the configure in $native_tools
subdir would complain that the package is already configures in the src. dir.

To fix this, my code did:
        rm -f config.status; cd $native_tools

Marks version does
        cd $native_tools; rm -f config.status

which doesn't fix the problem described above.  (In fact, it's irrelevant
whether the config.status file is removed, as the configure script would
rewrite it soon.)

Have a nice day,
        Stepan

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