Re: cross-compiling and AC_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak]

ping?

Either nobody knows the answer, nobody read the message, or ... :(

help?

rlc

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to get the AC_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD macro from the macro archive 
> to work with version 2.57 of autoconf (version 1.7.2 of aclocal (from 
> automake); version 1.7.2 of automake and version 1.4.1 of m4).
> 
> the original AC_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD uses a number of pushdefs and popdefs to 
> rename the variables used by these functions, so I've pretty much tried to 
> do the same thing, and failed.
> 
> Apparently, the variables are not renamed within the macros invoked by the
> AC_PROG_CC macro. It apparently works if the macro is invoked as any 
> other, but not if it is "included" with a ``m4_expand_once'' directive.
> 
> Is there any known way to work around this (without patching autoconf 
> itself)?
> 
> rlc
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