Re: Patch for Preview: Cross-Configury Tweaks (Updated)

[Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>]

Hi Ranjit,

>I have not tried this out, but this looks neater than the
>one I submitted, except that you can perhaps do away with
>"which_gcj" and do that stuff in line...

The which_gcj helped me to mentally sort things out and not
duplicate confusing stuff....

>The "proof of the pudding" would be to do a clean build on
>Linux(native), Linux(cross), Linux(crossed_native) and
>MinGW(native) and I *guess* you'd have already tested out
>these...

I've tested teh cross and crossed-native builds. I haven't
been able to build MingW natively: MSYS gives me these
irreproducible errors. I assume the native build works.
Like I said, I need to do tons more testing. There's also
another build: a Canadian cross (i.e. linux-cygwin-mingw).
For this, I think I'd TWO cross compilers (a linux-cygwin
cross to build the cross compiler, then a linux-mingw one
to build the libraries), right?

>How is this different from ac_cv_exeext? (Just curious - I
>am by no means an authority on any of this stuff!)

ac_cv_exeext is defined as either ".exe" or "no" (if unset)
as opposed to ac_exeext (".exe" / "").

>AFAIK Tom would be the best person to certify the validity
>of these changes.

I need to do more validation and testing. I just wanted to see
if you found anything blatantly wrong. Thanks for looking at this.

-- Mohan
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