patch to libffi/configure.in to allow crosscompiling

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 31, 2002, Adam Megacz <patches@lists.megacz.com> wrote:

> I don't quite understand. As it is, if somebody checks gcc out of CVS
> and builds it, autoconf is never run -- instead, the CVS copy of
> configure is used. It doesn't work when crosscompiling, so the build
> fails.

The point is that maintainers are supposed to have a certain version
of autoconf, so that they can rebuild configure in case they make
changes to configure.in.  The situation is bad enough that the set of
versions of maintainer tools is not uniform across all directories.

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