Re: Defaults when cross-compiling

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/8/23 9:59 PM, Michael T. Kloos wrote:
> It seems to me that Autoconf (configure) is making some bad choices if it 
> is just guessing that support exists like that, especially when it has a 
> guaranteed fallback.  It's job is to setup the build for the target host 
> system.

I think you don't need to work in absolutes like that. That's an awful
lot of systems you'd be orphaning if cross-compilation made that choice --
more than 90% of the targets, I'd bet. I'd rather configure for that
majority and provide a workaround for systems without sbrk.

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