On 25 Oct 2023 20:24, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > while cross-building a package I noticed a warning emitted by configure: > > ... > checking for arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf-file... no > checking for file... file > configure: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet > > This was added in commit da2e35273572 ("libtool: replace some references > to /usr/bin/file and /bin/sh") by using AC_CHECK_TOOL to find the file > program (included in libtool 2.4.7). > > I wonder if using AC_CHECK_PROG would be more appropriate here. Or is it > really expected that file is installed as a cross tool using a host > triplet prefix? The commit log doesn't mention anything in that > direction (and before that commit "/usr/bin/file" was used). > > I'm not familiar with libtool development, so didn't even try to prepare > a patch.
AC_CHECK_PROG seems more appropriate -mike
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