On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Guenter Knauf wrote:

> The basic thing I often struggle with configure is that it wants to compile
> a teststub, and then launch it which is of course not possible when
> cross-compiling.

Indeed, configure is best for when it runs on the system it should build on
and for. For cross-compiling it still needs to make assumptions and guesses
and let the "compilee" (the person running the compiler) fix the config.h file
(or similar) after the invoke.

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