Re: configure patch for cross compilation

[Paul Bender <pebender@san.rr.com>]

On 6/2/2010 7:57 AM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 16:26, Paul Bender<pebender@san.rr.com>  wrote:
>> The message asking about cross compilation reminded me that I have a patch
>> that is needed for cross compilation. Because autoconf's AC_CHECK_FILE fails
>> when cross compiling, it use in location the pci.ids file needs to be
>> surrounded in a conditional. Otherwise, the configure script never allows
>> the --with-pci-ids-path to be used.
>
> Why would that fail? There are 3 test in a row, two of them are
> expected to always fail. If all of them will fail, if you must specify
> the thing on the commandline. That seems to work fine here.

I should not have used the term 'fail'. Rather, I should have used the 
term 'die'. The AC_CHECK_FILE macro checks to see whether or not the 
package is being cross compiled. If it is, then then it dies, causing 
the configure script to stop.

> And please never send compressed patches, especially not when the
> patch is 2 kb in size. :)

No problem, I will try to remember in the future. Some mailing lists 
prefer compressing patches because of the mangling that some mail list 
archiving software does to text attachments. I have trouble keeping 
track of which list prefers which format.