Require autoconf-2.53 for cross-compile endian support

bk: 3ea5030cLVYgJYDUMqRBdXU_QMFuhg

diff --git a/README.bk b/README.bk
index d020a02bd466884a188530c1bc7fc80c05d8beed..2b840c4403ac8fb78097e4eb2bf933639d88c9ee 100644 (file)
--- a/README.bk
+++ b/README.bk
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 In order to use the BitKeeper repository version of NTP you will have
 to have the following tools installed:
 
-       autoconf        2.52 or later
+       autoconf        2.53 or later
        automake        1.5 or later
        lynx
 

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index c029bea76dbfa27c72a24c450d8abeac2b9e547f..3335be8dbab064cf2f094daad3adf3d388870436 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(STR_SYSTEM, "$host", [canonical system (cpu-vendor-os) string
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 AC_ARG_PROGRAM
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ntp, 4.1.1c-rc1)
-AC_PREREQ(2.52)                # We need the cross-compile-aware SIZEOF stuff.
+AC_PREREQ(2.53)
 
 ac_cv_var_atom_ok=no
 ac_cv_var_oncore_ok=no
@@ -323,22 +323,7 @@ if test "$ac_cv_have_prototypes" = yes; then
 fi
 
 AC_C_CONST
-case "$build" in
- $host)
-    AC_C_BIGENDIAN
-    ;;
- *) case "$host" in
-     i*86-*-*) # Was i*86-*-vxworks*
-       # LITTLEENDIAN
-       ;;
-     *-*-vxworks*)
-       AC_DEFINE(WORDS_BIGENDIAN)
-       ;;
-     *) AC_MSG_ERROR(Cross-compiling needs explicit byte order)
-       ;;
-    esac
-    ;;
-esac
+AC_C_BIGENDIAN
 AC_TYPE_SIGNAL
 AC_TYPE_OFF_T
 AC_TYPE_SIZE_T