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Re: configury assembler features
On Mar 19, 2002, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Hmm, yes. We obviously can't run the assembler and other tools to
> find their capabilities when $build != $host.
Err... Actually, we can. Because when $build != $host, $AS will be
set to ${host_alias}-as, which is a cross-assembler from $build to
$host. Look at the top-level configure, right below:
# If we are doing a Canadian Cross, in which the host and build systems
# are not the same, we set reasonable default values for the tools.
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