On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 15:04, Zack Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> The thing that comes immediately to mind, and which would be feasible
> for 2.70, is to not run _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT when cross-compiling.
That seems realistic to me. The hardcoded paths are not useful in a
cross environment in the slightest.
> It might also make sense for
> _AC_PATH_X_XMKMF to look for ${ac_tool_prefix}-xmkmf rather than plain
> xmkmf, except I don't know if that would break existing cross compile
> build farms.
To be honest, nothing uses xmkmf/Imake anymore, so I don't think
anyone would know or care if the test was deleted entirely...
Ross
