first iceadtea cross-compile patch: disable sanity checks

[Robert Schuster]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew John Hughes schrieb:
>> So my question is. Do you want a separate configure option, that can
>> only disable the above mentioned sanity checks and is otherwise
>> independent from the CROSS_COMPILATION stuff that is coming?
>>
> I guess that's what I was aiming at, with all the options necessary
> for cross compilation defaulting to on when cross_compiling is set.
Ok, I will rework the patch in that way.

>> Additionally Matthews was not happy with the former name since it is
>> actually not disabling all sanity checks (which the name may imply) but
>> only some of them.
>>
> 
> My main issue with the current name is the length; my poor fingers!
> Maybe there is a happy medium; e.g. --disable-host-specific-checks?
The long name was chosen for the reason that it is not complete yet.
People should not think they have 100% cross-compilation support when
IcedTea6 is released next time. The support is only finished when we are
through all the patches that I have in the queue (at least 2-3 to come,
maybe more).

Regards
Robert

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