--host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --target=i686-redhat-linux-gnu ???

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 18:24 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> we seem to have things set up to run configure as:
> 
>  --build=i386-redhat-linux-gnu
>  --host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu
>  --target=i686-redhat-linux-gnu
> 
> Which, according to my reading of the autoconf manual means:
> 
>  * Build on a i386-redhat-linux-gnu
>  * Create code that runs on i386-redhat-linux-gnu
>  * Build a cross tool chain that targets i686-redhat-linux-gnu
> 
> and really doesn't make sense. I'm pretty sure we want to pass
> i686-redhat-linux-gnu for --host, and we don't need to specify --target.

(clip)

> Am I missing something here? This is causing GLib to build using slow
> fallbacks for atomic operations, and likely causes other problems as
> well.

I've had some problems as well with pcc where using %configure makes the
build process think a cross compilation should be done.
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Jussi Lehtola
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