>--[Tim Van Holder]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 31 May 2001 15:15:49 +0200, R�diger Kuhlmann wrote:
> Akim was talking about the 'case "$host"', I think.
> The problem is that since we are testing whether a function works, we
> need to _run_ that function. When cross-compiling, this is not
> possible, so checking for platforms where the function in question is
> known to be broken seemed acceptable. I suppose it would be better to
> simply display a warning about how it is impossible to check for a
> working fork when cross-compiling, but that doesn't make the result of
> the test any better.
So we need something like AC_MSG_CROSS_WARN that basically does
_AC_ECHO_N([[CROSS] ])
_AC_ECHO_N([[CROSS] ], AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD)
and maybe outputs a warning at the end of configure, that some values
needed to be guessed due to cross-compiling?
Having a global marker one can look for in config.log would ease
cross-compiling, as nowadays everybody does it his way. Maybe
AC_MSG_CROSS_WARN could also output to config.log, which cache value would
have to be set.
Anyway, if you want me to let this test just fail instead, just tell me.
Yours, R�diger.
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