Using automake and configure with a toolchain

Question

I'm trying to cross-compile some libraries which use automake and ./configure but I can't get them working with my toolchain. I am setting the --host and --build flags (possibly incorrectly) and also the CC, CPP, CXX, and CXXCPP environment variables.

I see in the output of ./configure that it's correctly picking up my toolchain compiler. I also see these lines in the output:

checking for i686-linux-objdump... no
checking for objdump... objdump
<...>
checking for i686-linux-strip... strip
checking for i686-linux-ranlib... no

Is ./configure using the local hostmachine copy of objdump? Is it correctly finding strip in the toolchain under the name i686-linux-strip?

Answer 1

Is ./configure using the local hostmachine copy of objdump?

Apparently.

Is it correctly finding strip in the toolchain under the name i686-linux-strip?

Yes.