[Buildroot] Various problem using buildroot-2012.05

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Stefan,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:04:57 +0200, Stefan Fr?berg wrote:

> Another "little" difficult case is Python.
> 
> Even tought Python uses autotools, it (and Perl) will always be the
> worst cross-compile
> friendly citizens in my book.
> Way back, before buildroot, I tried many times to cross-compile it in
> Mingw32 environment and it was an
> absolute nightmare. With Perl I had even less luck.

So far, Python has been relatively manageable and what have a bunch of
Python modules that work.

> Every time I find an interesting open source project that I would like
> to try and cross-compile,
> I will make an silent prayer to God's of programmers that the build
> system that is revealed from
> tarball will be a GNU autoconf script (or even cmake one for God's
> sake) and not
> some hodge-bodge, custom made, configuration nightmare.

I agree that custom made build systems are a pain. However, from my
(possibly naive and idealist) perspective, the right solution to these
is to fix them rather than workarounding the problem using native
compilation on the target.

Best regards,

Thomas
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