From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>,
Julius Naperkowski <j.nap@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Provide pessimistic defaults for cross compilation tests.
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:49:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vab9mpu8w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901200037510.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:39:44 +0100 (CET)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> How do you deal with the hardcoded limitation that uname_S is defined to
> be the output of "uname -s" on the _build_ system, and that quite a large
> part of the Makefile sets variables dependent on this?
>
> IOW are you certain that configure (with your patch) will override _all_
> uname_S dependent settings?
It may be a valid question but it is not limited to cross compilation, is
it? The matter is if values the Makefile wants to default to can be
overriden by whatever is placed in config.mak, and as long as that is Ok
we won't have a problem with or without use of configure (which is a
second class citizen).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-20 2:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-15 13:22 autoconf: C99 format check Julius Naperkowski
2009-01-16 9:41 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-01-19 20:34 ` [PATCH] Provide pessimistic defaults for cross compilation tests Ralf Wildenhues
2009-01-19 23:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-20 2:49 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-01-20 6:59 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-01-20 6:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-20 7:04 ` Ralf Wildenhues
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