libtool using AC_CHECK_TOOL to find file

Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:24:44 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello,

while cross-building a package I noticed a warning emitted by configure:

	...
	checking for arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf-file... no
	checking for file... file
	configure: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet

This was added in commit da2e35273572 ("libtool: replace some references
to /usr/bin/file and /bin/sh") by using AC_CHECK_TOOL to find the file
program (included in libtool 2.4.7).

I wonder if using AC_CHECK_PROG would be more appropriate here. Or is it
really expected that file is installed as a cross tool using a host
triplet prefix? The commit log doesn't mention anything in that
direction (and before that commit "/usr/bin/file" was used).

I'm not familiar with libtool development, so didn't even try to prepare
a patch.

Best regards
Uwe

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