With these changes configure_target no longer complains about no-prefix
on cross compiling. On an aarch64 build host the target_ compile fails
when the build host gcc is used with the -m32 option. On an x86_64 build
host, the host gcc compiles grub (-m32 and assembly) successfully.
before:
checking for i386-pc-linux-gcc... no
checking for i386-pc-linux-egcs... no
checking for i386-pc-linux-cc... no
checking for gcc... gcc
configure: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet
checking for i386-pc-linux-objcopy... no
checking for objcopy... objcopy
checking for i386-pc-linux-strip... no
checking for strip... strip
checking for i386-pc-linux-nm... no
checking for nm... nm
checking for i386-pc-linux-ranlib... no
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking which extra warnings work...
checking if compiling with clang... yes
checking for options to compile assembly... configure: error: could not compile assembly
after:
checking for i386-pc-linux-gcc... /build/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-11.0-devel/toolchain/bin/x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu-gcc
checking for i386-pc-linux-objcopy... /build/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-11.0-devel/toolchain/bin/x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu-objcopy
checking for i386-pc-linux-strip... /build/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-11.0-devel/toolchain/bin/x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu-strip
checking for i386-pc-linux-nm... /build/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-11.0-devel/toolchain/bin/x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu-nm
checking for i386-pc-linux-ranlib... /build/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-11.0-devel/toolchain/bin/x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu-ranlib
update 9.62 (2021-05-10) to 9.63 (2022-01-10)
updates since 9.62:
- new --sanitize-overwrite-passes flag, courtesy Michal Grzedzicki.
- applied "Plurals patch" from Martin Guy.
update 4.0.36 (2021-11-21) to 4.0.37 (2022-01-08)
Improvements since the 4.0.36 release are:
- Removed mclasserase commands, which doesn't fit the coding
structure of the rest of mtools
- Add support to -i option to mcd
- Document -i flag in mtools.1
- Fix a missing command error in floppyd_io.c
announcement:
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-mtools/2022-01/msg00000.html