When configuring canadian cross toolchain and you're unlucky enough to be using a build and host that are different, but that config.sub thinks mean the same thing, you might end up without BUILD_CC being defined as 'cc' or 'gcc', which might cause $CC to be used instead, which would be wrong... Dan Kegel --- glibc-2.3.2/configure.old 2004-05-26 19:46:43.000000000 -0700 +++ glibc-2.3.2/configure 2004-05-26 19:52:47.000000000 -0700 @@ -3323,7 +3323,7 @@ ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5' ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu -if test $host != $build; then +if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then for ac_prog in gcc cc do # Extract the first word of "$ac_prog", so it can be a program name with args.