Re: Makefile.am question

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* tom fogal wrote on Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:31:06AM CEST:
> 
> Also I wonder if this is the appropriate list to ask this type of
> question? Doesn't automake have a mailing list? anyway...

Yes, it does: automake@ with the same domain.

*snip fine explanations*
>  <address@hidden>William Estrada writes:
> 
> >    CC=/opt/brcm/hndtools-mipsel-uclibc/bin/mipsel-uclibc-gcc
> >    LD=/opt/brcm/hndtools-mipsel-uclibc/bin/mipsel-uclibc-gcc
> <snip>
> 
> You seem to want to cross compile the app. It seems to me that forcing
> a particular compiler is not 'the autoconf way'; rather, the user
> should manually specify that they want to cross compile the application
> via the correct options to ./configure.

Especially, if the macro AC_CANONICAL_HOST is given (I believe), it
should be possible to have `configure' find the right compilers by
issuing 
  configure --host=mipsel-uclibc

Regards,
Ralf