Re: Cross compiling texinfo-4.7

[Mark Fortescue]

Hi Stepan,

Thanks for the update. It makes the more sense to me know.

Regards
        Mark Fortescue.

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Stepan Kasal wrote:

> 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
>