Re: failure of cross-compilation detection on BlueGene/L

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Christian Rössel wrote on Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:52:31AM CEST:
> at the moment I'm just thinking of an external macro that sets $host if  
> it is not set by the user. Depending on $cpu and $os of the build system  
> you check for some special directories (e.g. /bgsys for Blue Gene/P).  
> Usually todays supercomputers have such special and distinct  
> directories. This is not the holy grail but works quite reliable for us.  
> I think that these heuristics is not general and reliable enough to be  
> included in autoconf/config.guess,

You can try; config.guess is maintained by address@hidden

Cheers,
Ralf