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Re: Supporting AC_TRY_RUN for cross-compilation (was: AC_FUNC_SETVBUF _R
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Supporting AC_TRY_RUN for cross-compilation (was: AC_FUNC_SETVBUF _REVERSED in cross-compilation) |
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Wed, 8 May 2002 11:29:40 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Dan Kegel <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:17:18 -0700
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> How about this: configure should take a commandline argument,
> --with-remote-run=, which specifies a wrapper command
> which knows how to execute tests remotely. For instance,
> --with-remote-run="ssh chassis" would use ssh to run the AC_TRY_RUN
> test on machine 'chassis'. If --with-remote-run is not
> specified, AC_TRY_RUN would behave just as it does today.
That sounds like a reasonable extension. It wouldn't work in all
cases, but it would help in some cases, and that is better than
nothing.
> I just checked, and ssh does pass back exit status properly,
> at least for /bin/true and /bin/false.
Alas, 'rsh' does not, which will make for some confusion. It was has
always been one of my pet peeves about 'rsh'.