hopefully portable endian test

Originally committed as revision 12436 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index afcdca5..03e38b8 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1565,7 +1565,7 @@ enabled vis && add_cflags "-mcpu=ultrasparc -mtune=ultrasparc"
 check_cc <<EOF || die "endian test failed"
 unsigned int endian = 'B' << 24 | 'I' << 16 | 'G' << 8 | 'E';
 EOF
-tr -c -d BIGE < $TMPO | grep -q BIGE && enable bigendian
+od -t x1 $TMPO | grep -q '42 49 47 45' && enable bigendian
 
 # ---
 # check availability of some header files