Toplevel configury, multilibs, new autoconf versions

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:04:10AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jul 27, 2003, Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> wrote:
> 
> > It source's config-ml.in, which runs through the list of multilib subdirs,
> > and does text substitution on the env variables.
> 
> And then it modifies CXX, and passes that to each multilib's
> configure.  Since each multilib uses separate config.cache and
> separate config.status, I don't see why the wrong CXX would be cached
> in them.  Isn't config-ml.in doing its job properly?  Or is the
> primary multilib inappropriately passing CXX to other multilibs'
> makefiles?

Nothing to do with the cache.  It's the passing of environment variables
on the command line (later in my message).

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