From: dagenais AT vlsi DOT polymtl DOT ca (Michel Dagenais)
Subject: bug in configure for cross-compiling
21 Oct 1996 11:58:21 -0700
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Message-ID: <9610211811.AA22576.cygnus.gnu-win32@gutrune.vlsi.polymtl.ca>
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I recently cross compiled gnu-win32 from Linux to Win32 and found one or
two small problems:

../configure --target=i386-cygwin32

The make did not work thereafter. After some experiment it became apparent
that the problem was with my "architecture" i686 since some places in
configure checked for *86 but other had i[345]86 and thus the resulting
makefile was incorrect. The following arguments produced a proper makefile:

../configure --host=i386-cygwin32 --target=i386-cygwin32

Later i cross-compiled the whole thing with:

../configure --build=i386-linux --host=i386-cygwin32 --target-i386-cygwin32


The resulting makefile did not work properly but the following does:

../configure --build=i386-linux --target-i386-cygwin32

Somehow the processing of the "host" argument did something strange.

Hope this helps. Thanks for this great piece of work.
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