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by Ben Gamari at 2025-08-02T04:29:39-04:00

configure: Allow override of CrossCompiling

As noted in #26236, the current inference logic is a bit simplistic. In
particular, there are many cases (e.g. building for a new libc) where
the target and host triples may differ yet we are still able to run the
produced artifacts as native code.

Closes #26236.

1 changed file:

configure.ac

Changes:

configure.ac

@@ -351,15 +351,23 @@ fi
  dnl ** Building a cross compiler?
  dnl --------------------------------------------------------------
 -CrossCompiling=NO
 -# If 'host' and 'target' differ, then this means we are building a cross-compiler.
 -if test "$target" != "$host" ; then
 -    CrossCompiling=YES
 -    cross_compiling=yes   # This tells configure that it can accept just 'target',
 -                          # otherwise you get
 -                          #   configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
 -                          #   If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
 +dnl We allow the user to override this since the target/host check
 +dnl can get this wrong in some particular cases. See #26236.
 +if test -z "$CrossCompiling" ; then
 +    CrossCompiling=NO
 +    # If 'host' and 'target' differ, then this means we are building a cross-compiler.
 +    if test "$target" != "$host" ; then
 +        CrossCompiling=YES
 +    fi
 +fi
 +if test "$CrossCompiling" = "YES"; then
 +    # This tells configure that it can accept just 'target',
 +    # otherwise you get
 +    #   configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
 +    #   If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
 +    cross_compiling=yes
  fi
++
  if test "$BuildPlatform" != "$HostPlatform" ; then
     AC_MSG_ERROR([
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