Re: Testsuite fails

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:

Akim> Your explanation is very correct.  AC_CHECK_TOOL only needs
Akim> host_alias, hence there was no reason to require AC_CANONICAL_*.

adl> Has anyone a plan to change this in Automake?

Eventually when we move to traces this will change.

For now we must be conservative.  I believe the last released autoconf
still has the old behavior.  We must work with that.

adl> Otherwise, as install-strip is concerned, another idea is to:
adl>   1) not call AM_PROG_INSTALL_STRIP from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
adl>   2) revert all `commenting' that has been done in AM_PROG_INSTALL_STRIP
adl>   3) ask the user to call AM_PROG_INSTALL_STRIP if she uses
adl>      AC_CANONICAL_HOST or AC_CANONICAL_TARGET (automake can
adl>      check for this, I guess).

One reason I knew it was "ok" to disable this entirely is that
packages which are set up for cross-compilation still have to do a lot
of work themselves.  For instance they must search for the cross
ranlib themselves.  That is, this is a general problem in autoconf
that I prefer we solve there, not in automake.

Tom