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Re: tweaks for autoconf 2.50
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:40:29PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
>
> "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@stanford.edu> writes:
>
> > AC_PROG_CC from 2.13 works just fine when
> > cross-compiling, we know this because the gcc directory has been using
> > it all along.
>
> I think you'll find that AC_PROG_CC from 2.13 doesn't work, because it
> uses AC_PROG_CC_WORKS, which requires that the compiler be able to
> link, and when you have no libc available because you had no compiler
> to build it then obviously you can't link anything.
So how come it works just fine for the gcc directory, then?
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