Re: Recap and patch to deprecating cross-compiler stuff

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:51, Bonzini wrote:
> Paul, 
> 
> thanks for the material about specifying the build type as an
> option.  Indeed, that's what autoconf does, except that the
> error message is wrong.
> 
> So this does not need to be deprecated and much less removed.
> Here is an updated patch that removes the deprecation, but
> still changes the other bits.
Sorry, Paolo, I am strongly opposed to this patch.

AFAIU, you are just about to revert all simplifications on
cross-compilation autoconf has eared since 2.5x.

At least your changes seem to be completely incompatible to
autoconf-2.5x and will definitely break packages. Therefore, if there
should be consensus on this patch, it should not be applied to autoconf
before 3.0.

Ralf