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AC_CANONICAL_HOST sets wrong $host_cpu on Raspberry Pi 3

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From: Viktor Engelmann <viktor.engelmann <at> googlemail.com>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: AC_CANONICAL_HOST sets wrong $host_cpu on Raspberry Pi 3
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 17:16:42 +0100

I'm trying to port a project to docker and I'm also testing it on my
Raspberry Pi 3B+

when I *./configure* and *make* the project, it fails with this message

gcc: error: unrecognized -mcpu target: armv7l
gcc: note: valid arguments are: arm8 arm810 strongarm [...] cortex-a53 [...]
gcc: error: missing argument to '-march='

lscpu says this:

Architecture:        armv7l
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core:  1
Core(s) per socket:  4
Socket(s):           1
Vendor ID:           ARM
Model:               4
Model name:          Cortex-A53
Stepping:            r0p4
CPU max MHz:         1200.0000
CPU min MHz:         600.0000
BogoMIPS:            38.40
Flags:               half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4
idiva idi
                     vt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32

So it seems to me that AC_CANONICAL_HOST sets $host_cpu to armv7l,
although that is the Architecture and should be passed to -march
instead. -mcpu should get the Model name.

I couldn't get it to accept the --host=cpu-os-abi parameter, because
cortex-a35 contains a dash and that seems to confuse autoconf (that
produces the error message Invalid configuration
`cortex-a53-unknown-linux-gnueabihf': machine `cortex-a53-unknown' not
recognized). I did manage to compile with
--host=native-unknown-linux-gnueabihf, but I'd rather not define a fixed
ABI, because that would break the cross-platform compatibility of the
Dockerfile.

I'm using autoconf 2.69 from the docker base image "ubuntu:latest".

Message #8 received at 44422 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: viktor.engelmann <at> googlemail.com
Cc: 44422 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44422: AC_CANONICAL_HOST sets wrong $host_cpu on Raspberry Pi
 3
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 15:30:32 -0700

    Subject: bug#44422: AC_CANONICAL_HOST sets wrong $host_cpu on
    Raspberry Pi 3

This sounds like an Autoconf issue to me? (Personally, I would not dare
guess what to do about the twisty maze of arm architecture variants.) I
resubmitted it on your behalf at:
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110360

Thanks for the report,
Karl

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From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: 44422-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:23:48 -0700

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