[Zlib-devel] CHOST option

[Jonathan Nieder]

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Volker Grabsch <vog at notjusthosting.com> schrieb:

>> IBTD. In mingw-cross-env, we only pass the toolchain commands
>> via the environment if there is no way around it.
>> 
>> Most packages are cross compiled via either
>> 
>>     make CROSS=i686-pc-mingw32-
>> 
>> or via:
>> 
>>     ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32
>>     make
>
> This only works in the specific case that you have only *one*
> toolchain per target-tuple and its commands are available
> under these names.

And?  Why can’t there be something easy for the common case and
something else flexible for the generic case?

If that is not actually what happens for cross-compilation with this
makefile (i.e. if overriding AR and so forth doesn’t work), my
apologies.  But then I think fixes would be more productive than
trying to get rid of the existing features.

Jonathan