I sent the mail by mistake incomplete, I am sorry. > Could you try this patch for the Hurd’s configure.in?
I had to put one more line after AC_NO_EXECUTABLES, otherwise it would fail with >> syntax error near unexpected token `fi'. Other than that it works as expected for me. diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index ecabfdf..7ede6db 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_PROG_AWK AC_PROG_SED +if test "x$cross_compiling" = "xyes"; then + # It may be that we don't have a working libc yet, for instance + # because we're bootstrapping the cross-compilation tool chain. + # Thus, use this undocumented Autoconf macro designed for this. + AC_NO_EXECUTABLES + echo done +fi AC_PROG_CC # Require GCC. if test x$GCC != xyes; then Manolis
