[lug] Disable Autoconf Version Check?

[Davide Del Vento]

If the problem is invalid assembler, rather than using old compiler
cannot you force the proper architecture with the cmd line flag?

On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 9:21 AM,  <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
> ...
>> If "foreign architecture" means cross compiling, does the error come from
>> the cross-compile tool-chain and is that the configuration you have been
>> looking at?
>
> I am building a cross compiler and related tools. Workstation is x86_64
> Fedora 23, tools run on x86_64, output of tools are ARMv7 and ARMv8-a. I
> have newer cross-tool-chains, but code from this older one is mandatory (I'm
> trying to figure out how the assembler output of what appears to be working
> older tool chain differs from the generally more current/better compilers
> which get kernel complaints about invalid assembler). This older tool chain
> was written quite some time back, probably in the era of Fedora 12
> days...autoconf thinks Fedora 23's "make" is older than the one which
> existed during Fedora 12. I know make is far newer than required, I'd like
> to somehow remove the autoconf rejection of make.
>
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