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[sergey AT optimaltec.com]

So that would something like ${HOST%%-*} = x86_64? A related question is, why
does CONFIGURE in gcc spell checks for both $(uname -m) and $HOST?

Quoting Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>:

> Eric Sandall a écrit :
> > Would someone mind doing a PPC update as well for this?
> >
> > -sandalle
>
> This has been done for some time here:
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5485
>
> As far as the proposed patch is concerned, you should check against
> $HOST instead of `uname -m`. `uname -m` is the build system and doing so
> will break cross compilation (or just cross install here). The same
> apply to the linux/linux-new spell (and a lot of other spell).
>
> Cross compilation is currently used to generate chroot for new
> architecture (I've doing so for ppc, x86-64, sparc and sparc64).