follow standard configure behavior for cross compile prefix
the standard configure interface, which our configure script tries to
implement, identifies cross compiling (build != host) and searches for
the properly-prefixed cross tools. our script was not doing that,
forcing users to explicitly provide either CC or a CROSS_COMPILE tool
prefix, and the more common choice, just providing CC, was incomplete
because the Makefile would still invoke the native ar and ranlib
programs. this happened to work when building on ELF-based systems
with GNU binutils, but could easily fail when cross-compiling from
dissimilar systems.
like before, and like the standard configure behavior, an explicit CC
or CROSS_COMPILE variable on the command line or in the environment
overrides the automatic prefixing.
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 53241ab..3794291 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
System types:
--target=TARGET configure to run on target TARGET [detected]
--host=HOST same as --target
+ --build=BUILD build system type; used only to infer cross-compiling
Optional features:
--enable-optimize=... optimize listed components for speed over size [auto]
@@ -129,6 +130,7 @@
syslibdir='/lib'
tools=
tool_libs=
+build=
target=
optimize=auto
debug=no
@@ -172,6 +174,7 @@
--disable-gcc-wrapper|--enable-gcc-wrapper=no) wrapper=no ;;
--enable-*|--disable-*|--with-*|--without-*|--*dir=*|--build=*) ;;
--host=*|--target=*) target=${arg#*=} ;;
+--build=*) build=${arg#*=} ;;
-* ) echo "$0: unknown option $arg" ;;
CC=*) CC=${arg#*=} ;;
CFLAGS=*) CFLAGS=${arg#*=} ;;
@@ -180,7 +183,7 @@
CROSS_COMPILE=*) CROSS_COMPILE=${arg#*=} ;;
LIBCC=*) LIBCC=${arg#*=} ;;
*=*) ;;
-*) target=$arg ;;
+*) build=$arg ; target=$arg ;;
esac
done
@@ -214,6 +217,15 @@
trap 'rm "$tmpc"' EXIT INT QUIT TERM HUP
#
+# Check whether we are cross-compiling, and set a default
+# CROSS_COMPILE prefix if none was provided.
+#
+test "$target" && \
+test "$target" != "$build" && \
+test -z "$CROSS_COMPILE" && \
+CROSS_COMPILE="$target-"
+
+#
# Find a C compiler to use
#
printf "checking for C compiler... "