* Steffen Dettmer wrote on Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:21:32AM CET: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:55 PM, NightStrike wrote: > > When doing a make distcheck, why is for instance the --host option not > > propagated to configure without explicitly setting > > DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS? > > erm... isn't --host enabling cross-compiling? > And when cross-compiling, make check always fails with some > "cannot execute binary" or so, so distcheck would always fail?
NightStrike's package is very specialized: by default it will run on 64-bit Windows only, because it's part of the support package for MinGW64 (or so I assume). So, since the package already requires a cross compilation environment, it might as well also require an emulator to be able to execute tests for a successful distcheck. wine comes to mind for this, together with binfmt-support to automatically execute w32 binaries using wine. Cheers, Ralf
