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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	Michael <aixtools@felt.demon.nl>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Dan Shumow" <shumow@gmail.com>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Is detecting endianness at compile-time unworkable?
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 01:35:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180801013524.4u5ioghtc2trhsqd@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh8kgfuba.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Well, having said all that, I do not think I personally mind if
> ./configure learned to include a "compile small program and run it
> to determine byte order on the build machine" as part of "we make a
> reasonable effort" as long as it cleanly excludes cross building
> case (and the result is made overridable just in case we misdetect
> the "cross-ness" of the build).

No need to run the program for cross-compiles, grepping a object
file seems to work for autoconf:

	git clone https://git.sv.gnu.org/git/autoconf.git
	$PAGER autoconf/lib/autoconf/c.m4
	# look for "BIGenDianSyS"

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-01  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-29 16:44 git broken for AIX somewhere between 2.13.2 and 2.13.3 Michael
2018-07-29 18:10 ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-29 19:46   ` Michael
2018-07-29 20:05     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-29 21:40       ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-30  6:22         ` Michael
     [not found]   ` <2309fa7f-c2d8-ee57-aff5-b9e32d2da609@felt.demon.nl>
     [not found]     ` <20180729192753.GD945730@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
2018-07-29 19:48       ` Michael
2018-07-29 20:06         ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-29 20:50           ` Michael
2018-07-30  9:39             ` Is detecting endianness at compile-time unworkable? Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-30 14:54               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-30 18:32                 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-30 18:39                   ` Daniel Shumow
2018-07-31 10:06                     ` Michael Felt
2018-08-01  1:35                   ` Eric Wong [this message]
2018-08-01  7:16                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-31 10:39               ` Michael Felt
2018-08-01  7:31                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-02 20:50                   ` [PATCH] sha1dc: update from upstream Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-02 21:29                     ` Michael Felt (aixtools)
2018-08-02 21:32                     ` Stefan Beller
2018-07-31 12:32               ` Is detecting endianness at compile-time unworkable? Michael Felt
2018-07-31 14:01               ` Michael Felt
2018-07-31 14:25                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-31 20:06                   ` Michael

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