Re: hello-2.1.91 build failure on MacOS X

[Simon Josefsson]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> would be suited a bit better.  Second though, there are many
> "cross-compiling" situations where executing the program actually works,
> so the above is at least a wee bit suboptimal.  (Think i486 -> i686, or
> Cygwin -> MinGW, or some simulator: on my GNU/Linux system, w32 binaries
> are automatically sent to wine for consumption...)

Perhaps autoconf should de-couple "can i execute this binary" from
"cross-compilation".  Autoconf could test if it is possible to run
programs by compiling a small program and run it, and see if the
output is correct.  So even if it is cross-compiling, it would be able
to run tests that need to run a binary.

/Simon