cant get autoconf/automake to crosscompile

[Robert Staven <robertst at tihlde dot org>]

FAQ seems to be down.. My excuse if the question is ansered there...


I'm trying to use autoconf/automake to make a configure who will do 
cross compile.

My system is RedHat7.2, and I'm using a toolchain from Arcom for the 
Viper ARM devel kit.

I cant get my ./configure to use the arm-linux-gcc (and so on), it keeps 
using the gcc whatever I try to do.

It seems like a simple problem, but beeing a linux newbie nothing in 
linus is 'simple' :-)
Any tips ideas of what I'm doing wrong?

An example:
configure.in
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dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a confgure script.
AC_INIT(test.c)
AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(test, 1.0)
AC_PROG_CC
AC_OUTPUT(Makefile)
------------------------------------------

Makefile.am
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bin_PROGRAMS = test
test_SOURCES = test.c
------------------------------------------

Then I do the aclocal / autoconf / automake
and try ./configure:
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[robertst@Nena test_plain_c_auto]$ CC=arm-linux-gcc AR=arm-linux-ar 
RANLIB=arm-linux-ranlib ./configure --build `./config.guess` --host 
arm-linux
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
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best regards
Robert
Staven


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