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From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] package/ncftp: fix cross compilation detection
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:48:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <atYfa40Xpbsq18Lk@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261019060028.1078791-1-yegorslists@gmail.com>

Hello,

On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 08:00:28AM +0200, Yegor Yefremov via buildroot wrote:
> From: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
> 
> ncftp still ships a configure script generated with autoconf 2.13, which
> determines whether it is cross compiling by simply trying to run a
> trivial program built with $CC, instead of looking at --host/--build.
> That heuristic breaks when the build machine is able to execute the
> binaries produced by the cross compiler, which is typically the case
> when building for x86/x86-64 on an x86-64 machine:
> 
>   checking whether the C compiler (...) is a cross-compiler... no

[...]

Thanks for the new iteration. But... which commit/change introduced
the regression? If you're not able to trace back the origin of the
regression, does it happen in 2025.02.x?

Thanks!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-19 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-03 11:47 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/ncftp: fix cross compilation detection Yegor Yefremov via buildroot
2026-10-10 17:42 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-18 20:56   ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-19  6:01     ` Yegor Yefremov
2026-10-19  6:00 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] " Yegor Yefremov via buildroot
2026-10-19 13:48   ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
2026-10-19 14:18   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] " Yegor Yefremov via buildroot
2026-10-19 16:57     ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot

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