--- a/aclocal.m4
+++ b/aclocal.m4
@@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ AC_RUN_IFELSE(
       int main () { return 0; }]])],
     [test -r conftest.1 || a=yes
      test -r conftest.2 || b=yes],
-  [], [AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot test for constructor/destructor support when cross compiling)])
+  [], [a=yes b=yes])
 case $krb5_cv_host in
 *-*-aix4.*)
 	# Under AIX 4.3.3, at least, shared library destructor functions
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -7117,7 +7117,7 @@ b=no
 # blindly assume we have 'unlink' and unistd.h.
 if test "$cross_compiling" = yes
 then :
-  as_fn_error $? "Cannot test for constructor/destructor support when cross compiling" "$LINENO" 5
+  a=yes b=yes
 else $as_nop
   cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
 /* end confdefs.h.  */