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From: tomas@fabula.de
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: autconf stdint types checking in guile-core
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:59:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030416085932.GA17905@www> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.51.0304160304010.90801@helena.whitefang.com>

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 03:28:21AM -0400, Thamer Al-Harbash wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Rob Browning wrote:
> 
> > Actually, this may be hard to get right.  I haven't yet figured out a
> > way to get the value of CHAR_BIT either at configure time, or from the
> > C compiler at gen-scmconfig time in the cross-compilation case...
> 
> Is AC_TRY_RUN at configure time bad for cross compilation? I'm
> assuming it is.

It is. You *get* the characteristics of the machine you are compiling
on [1]. You *want* the characteristics of the machine your compiled stuff
is supposed to be run.

There is no simple solution to this problem, IMHO, short of...
say building a `probe' program you send to the target machine
to collect characteristics and `bring them back' to the compilation
host.

Does auto-* have such a thing?

-------
[1] To be more precise ...the machine you are running configure on.

Regards
-- tomas


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-16  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-15 19:01 autconf stdint types checking in guile-core Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-04-16  5:54 ` Rob Browning
2003-04-16  6:16 ` Rob Browning
2003-04-16  7:28   ` Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-04-16  8:59     ` tomas [this message]
2003-04-16 12:11   ` Marius Vollmer
2003-04-16 16:22     ` Rob Browning

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