Re: where is doc for --host option ?

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Sat, 9 May 2009, Ethan Merritt (sfream) wrote:

> On Saturday 09 May 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 May 2009, Ethan Merritt (sfream) wrote:
> >
> > > On Friday 08 May 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > > > I think one benefit of using AC_PROG_CC is simply that it displays
> > > > help for such compiler-related options in response to configure
> > > > --help.
> > >
> > > It turns out we already have AC_PROG_CC in the gnuplot
> > > configure.in, yet it doesn't display any information about
> > > cross-compiling in the help message.  So scratch that theory.
> >
> > OK, it was a guess, and a wrong one.  My second attempt is that
> > the provision of the the "host and build" configuration info is a
> > libtool thing.  I tried the experiment of adding
> >
> > AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> >
> > to gnuplot's configure.in and re-running ./prepare.  This gave the
> > error "required file `./ltmain.sh' not found".  So I copied
> > ltmain.sh into place and re-ran ./prepare.  I then got a
> > configure script that gave the help output, inter alia:
> >
> > System types:
> >   --build=BUILD     configure for building on BUILD [guessed]
> >   --host=HOST       cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST [BUILD]
>
> Huh.
> But I don't think we really want to require libtool, do we?
> We are not building any libraries.

Agreed.  It seems like overkill if no libraries are being built.

But it would be nice if one could build a libgnuplot one day ;-)

Allin Cottrell