On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:08:10PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> >if test ${build} != ${host}; then
> > some defaults
> >else
> > AC_PROG_CC
> >fi
> >
> >AC_TRY_COMPILE
> >
> >ac_objext is set at the expansion of AC_PROG_CC and if you take the if
> >branch, it never gets set.
> >
> >Does anyone reading this know what the right thing to do is? Is there
> >anything in the autoconf documentation about not using some macros
> >inside conditional statements?
>
> Yes, but the idea is that, if we are in a Canadian setting, we can set
> all the variables that Autoconf sets, in the `then' branch. So we'd set
> ac_objext=.o in the `then' branch.
This seems horribly wrong somehow. Aren't we intested in the ${build}
-> ${host} compiler at this point anyway? So shouldn't we be testing
it? I think the whole block can go.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
