Re: Checking for SSE/MMX support

[joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:51:07PM +0000, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> Unfortunately, because of
> autoconf (Which makes the same assumption about "host == target", and compiles
> small testprograms to be executed on the build host.

This is incorrect blaming. Most tests delivered with autoconf itself are
perfectly crosscompiling safe. They build and link a program, but never
run it. The stupid abuse and platform name matching is a different issue
though.

Joerg


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