From e47e0242c994ff50da4e8a4e3039b5c2c37af511 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcus Comstedt <marcus_c@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:07:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Create a variable _host_alias defaulting to
 $_host_cpu-$_host_os, which is used to pick the cross compiler.  This allows
 "special" hosts to override it.

svn-id: r39520
---
 configure | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 0f054ab4fb3..4385ea6dd79 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ _host=""
 _host_cpu=""
 _host_vendor=""
 _host_os=""
+_host_alias=""
 
 cc_check() {
 	echo >> "$TMPLOG"
@@ -858,6 +859,10 @@ neuros)
 	;;
 esac
 
+if test -z "$_host_alias"; then
+	_host_alias="$_host_cpu-$_host_os"
+fi
+
 #
 # Determine extension used for executables
 #
@@ -893,7 +898,7 @@ esac
 #
 echo_n "Looking for C++ compiler... "
 if test -n "$_host"; then
-	compilers="$CXX $_host_cpu-$_host_os-g++ $_host_cpu-$_host_os-c++ $_host-g++ $_host-c++"
+	compilers="$CXX $_host_alias-g++ $_host_alias-c++ $_host-g++ $_host-c++"
 else
 	compilers="$CXX g++ c++"
 fi