Re: --target in %configure in rawhide i386

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On 08/08/2009 08:58 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 18:34 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On 08/08/2009 12:19 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > why does %configure still use
> > >
> > > --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > > --target=i586-redhat-linux-gnu
> > >
> > > in rawhide i386, shouldn't the target be i686-redhat-linux-gnu?
> >
> > --target should not be set at all.
> >
> > It's meaningless for 99.9% of all packages.
>
> .. and it causes trouble in the 0.1% of packages: compilers.

Correct, it's a bug in redhat-rpm-config.

Actually, I thought this was fixed a long time ago, because we have this 
discussion each time a compiler/toolchain package is being introduced to 
Fedora.

Either this didn't happen or somebody reintroduced the bug.

Common work-around is not to use %configure for such package.

> At least
> the pcc build scripts think that a cross-compilation is in course, since
> the host and target arguments differ.
This would be a bug in this package.

Modern (autoconf > 2.13) autotools treat $build != $host as cross 
compilation.

Ralf