Cross-compiling and the gen* native build tools

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2014-02-04 05:17, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> A strategy that often works is to just use the preprocessor output 
> instead of compiling and running the resulting program.  autoconf has 
> support for this.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Running-the-Preprocessor

For just extracting system constants, that might be a good idea, yes. I 
can't see any reason for why not a cross-compiling toolchain's 
preprocessor could be used in those cases, so that should be one way to 
get rid of the build compiler. Thanks for the suggestion!

/Magnus