Re: cross compilation

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* NightStrike wrote on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:11:00AM CET:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >  > problem because I need to use AR, RANLIB and LD from the Makefiles and I 
> > can't
> >  > find AR_FOR_BUILD and co.
> >
> >  Yep.  There is no code in Autoconf that sets these *_FOR_BUILD
> >  variables.  If you like you can go look how GCC does it, and copy
> >  that.
> >
> >  If somebody implements something general along these lines that
> >  is useful for several packages, it would be nice to have in Autoconf!
> 
> Is gcc's solution not general enough?

I did not mean to imply that; in fact, I don't know.  A solution
inside Autoconf would benefit several packages, if it were general
enough.  But somebody has to do the work of putting it in Autoconf.

Cheers,
Ralf