Re: configure does not honor CC when testing for -mcmodel=large

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:35:57PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote:
>  Ok, setting TARGET_CC to gcc-4.3.2 works around this.  My assumption was 
> that CC was the right environment variable (technically, it is, since I'm 
> not "cross-compiling".

Any reason not to use --host as well as --target then, so that Autoconf
knows you want to force a specific host platform? If you do that and the
values provided for host and target are the same, GRUB's configure
script won't assume cross-compilation.

> This going back to the core problem of all autoconf detecting Solaris
> as i386-pc-solaris and not x86_64-pc-solaris.

That should be fixed in config.{guess,sub}, certainly.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden