Re: hello-2.1.91 build failure on MacOS X

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Simon,

* Simon Josefsson wrote on Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:06:28AM CEST:
> 
> 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.

Definitely.  On the TODO list, together with this:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2005-04/msg00072.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-03/msg00131.html

Unfortunately, there was no volunteer for the SoC project:
http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html#autoconf

Cheers,
Ralf