configure.build_arch

[Toby Peterson]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:40, Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 05:25:56PM -0700, Toby Peterson wrote:
>>
>> No. From configure's perspective, cross-compiling means building for
>> an architecture that your build system can't run. A 64-bit Snow
>> Leopard machine can run x86_64, i386, and ppc (with Rosetta).
>>
>
> Normally...but name me another operating system in history where
> the architecture detected by config.guess differed so radically
> from that of the actual code generation of the system compiler. Any
> way, let's leave this discussion sit until we get a response from
> the autoconf developers on how they view the situation with
> darwin10.

Unless they're planning on redesigning the autotools infrastructure to
actually handle building for multiple architectures, I don't think
their opinion is particularly relevant. Any change to config.guess etc
is just another hack to keep things limping along.

- Toby