From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Enrico Weigelt Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:18:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20080612181806.GA7423@nibiru.local> References: <20080610134932.B27D62430C@gemini.denx.de> <200806110025.27575.rob@landley.net> Reply-To: weigelt@metux.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200806110025.27575.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux Embedded Maillist * Rob Landley schrieb: Hi, > There's also qemu. You can native build under emulation. did you ever consider that crosscompiling is not only good for some other arch, but a few more things ? > In addition, if you have a cross compiler but don't want to spend all your > time lying to ./configure, preventing gcc from linking against the host's > zlib or grabbing stuff out of /usr/include that your target hasn't got, or #1: use a proper (sysroot'ed) toolchain #2: fix broken configure.in's (and feed back to upstream or OSS-QM) #3: replace libtool by unitool > trying to figure out why on EARTH the perl build decided to use x86 signal Perl never was crosscompile-capable. I've rewrote much of the buildscripts, but not finished yet. Just in case that anyone's interested in it, let me know. > libraries are linked inside the emulator, anything that wants to look > at /proc or sysinfo does it natively inside the emulator...) Only crap sw looks at /proc at build time. Yes, there's *much* crap sw out there :( cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------