Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] configure: cross-compiling without cross_prefix

[Joelle van Dyne]

Just to be clear, you're in favor of removing the
--enable-cross-compile option? I can do that if others agree but I'm
not sure what the downside of adding this extra option is?

-j

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:54 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 25/10/20 20:24, Joelle van Dyne wrote:
> > As the patch stands --cross-prefix="" works but I like having the
> > --enable-cross-compile option because it's more clear of the intention
> > (in logs and such). I've been struggling to come up with a concise
> > modification to the help text for --cross-prefix that explains that
> > empty PREFIX is allowed and why you would want to do that.
>
> --cross-prefix=PREFIX enable cross compilation, using PREFIX
>                       in front of compile tools
>
> Paolo
>