Re: Issues w/ cross-compiling

[Andreas Schwab]

"Philip A. Prindeville" <address@hidden> writes:

> Looking at sequences like:
>
> echo $ac_n "checking size of size_t""... $ac_c" 1>&6
> echo "configure:17119: checking size of size_t" >&5
> if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_sizeof_size_t'+set}'`\" = set"; then
>  echo $ac_n "(cached) $ac_c" 1>&6
> else
>  if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then
>  ac_cv_sizeof_size_t=8
> else
>
>
> which comes from:
>
> build_i586/php-5.2.6/configure.in:AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(size_t, 8)

You are looking at an old version of autoconf.  The current definition
of AC_CHECK_SIZEOF does not use the second argument any more and use a
pure compile-time check when cross compiling.

Andreas.

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