[Zlib-devel] CHOST option

[Enrico Weigelt]

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

Hi,

> > Maybe in number of performed builds, but not technically.
> > BTW: that approach *only* works if you have only one toolchain
> > per target-tuple, otherwise you'll easily get into big trouble.
> 
> I must confess that I don't understand you critism. I never
> questioned that absolute paths are sometimes needed. 

Concrete example, please ;-p

> > I'll first have to check it carefully to answer this. My build 
> > machinery passes individual toolchain commands - for almost a
> > decade now - as this is the de facto standard. (for those who
> > don't, I mainain my own branch).
> 
> I fully agree that AR, CC, etc. should override the defaults
> derived from CROSS (or CHOST). If that's not the case, it is
> really a bug in zlib.

Yep. We should check it. Maybe we could write a generic check 
script (not just for zlib) ;-)


cu
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