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Re: Hopeful patch for configure breakage
- To: zackw at Stanford dot EDU
- Subject: Re: Hopeful patch for configure breakage
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:29:52 -0800
- Cc: john at feith dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <20010315164627.D251@stanford.edu>
>>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zackw@Stanford.EDU> writes:
Zack> Yes, but does it cause trouble in practice? The
Zack> alternatives we have are (a) back out the patch (something I
Zack> would prefer to avoid, but it may be necessary), (b) figure
Zack> out a way to compile and run a program on the build machine
Zack> (which can be done, but would be a pain).
Is that hard? That's what configure does all the time, right? We
already know what the host C compiler is, so I can't imagine this
would be that hard...
Zack> Or - it just occurred to me - we could run the object file
Zack> through od(1).
That's a good idea, if it exists on most machines.
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