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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: configure/make target machine
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:11:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130312121107.GM25165@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <513EB4F7.3040204@cse.unsw.edu.au>

On Tue, Mar 12 2013, Aaron Carroll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It would be nice to make fio a little more cross compile friendly.  Right
> now configure determines the target by checking for C defines and falling
> back to uname.  The makefile then reads uname again.  Is there any reason we
> can't propagate the host/target from configure to makefile?

Absolutely no reason why that could not be done. I haven't played much
wit cross compiling myself (ever), so feel free to implement a proper
way of passing the required info to configure/Makefile so that it's more
cross build friendly.

-- 
Jens Axboe


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2013-03-12  4:54 configure/make target machine Aaron Carroll
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