Re: Cross-compilation check broken

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:19:29AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > But if it really meant to compare target with host, I think it should be:
> > 
> >   if test "x$target_cpu" != "x$host_cpu"; then
> > 
> > rather than what was before:
> > 
> >   if test "x$target" != "x$host"; then
> > 
> > Since "$target_os" has no real meaning.  Does that work for you?
> 
> I understand that you are trying to exorcise "$target_os" by all means.
> By from the user standpoint, the second set of tools is needed if the
> "--target" option was specified and its argument is different from the
> one for the "--host" option.

Could you give an example situation in which this is needed?  Currently I
just see that user might do misleading things like:

  --host=powerpc-unknown-foo --target=powerpc-unknown-bar

and then the check will think that host != target because foo != bar, without
taking into account that "bar" is meaningless here.

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