From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Enrico Weigelt Subject: Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:37:35 +0200 Message-ID: <20080612183735.GE7423@nibiru.local> References: <1209577322.25560.402.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200806102235.09598.rob@landley.net> <484F66F8.4020409@snapgear.com> <200806111941.51221.rob@landley.net> <48513F5A.6010008@am.sony.com> <1213285831.26255.152.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <48514D77.4060007@am.sony.com> Reply-To: weigelt@metux.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48514D77.4060007@am.sony.com> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux Embedded Maillist * Tim Bird schrieb: > If autoconf is the problem (and I think it is), then that's what > should be fixed (see my original post). ACK. One of the first things I did was replacing libtool and kicked off broken-by-design macros like AC_TRY_RUN. This solved at >80% of the problems for me. > At a minimum, it would be nice if it had more built-in detection > and warning of techniques that were dangerous for cross-compilation. Meanwhile, autoconf warns on some broken macros like AC_TRY_RUN. 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------