first iceadtea cross-compile patch: disable sanity checks

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/4/1 Robert Schuster <theBohemian at gmx.net>:
> 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
>
>

Yes, acknowledged.  But what I was suggesting is that the changes are
available as a bunch of sensibly named options, which default to on
when cross-compiling but are available to be forced on for testing.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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