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Re: Projects for beginners

To: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
Subject: Re: Projects for beginners
From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
Date: 31 Jan 2001 18:21:51 -0200
Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
References: <10101311217.AA01140@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu><20010131111758.R525@wolery.stanford.edu>

On Jan 31, 2001, "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU> wrote:

> - Could perfectly well be determined by autoconf even when
>   cross-compiling

autoconf can only detect properties of the compiler for the host
machine.  It can't figure out how the compiler for the target is
supposed to look like before it has a compiler for the target to
test.  Catch 22.

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