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: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:28:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20080613152854.GM11760@nibiru.local> References: <1209577322.25560.402.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200806131106.18487.neundorf@eit.uni-kl.de> <1213348320.26255.231.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200806131132.55543.neundorf@eit.uni-kl.de> Reply-To: weigelt@metux.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200806131132.55543.neundorf@eit.uni-kl.de> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux Embedded Maillist * Alexander Neundorf schrieb: > E.g. in python there are tests which call functions and check > their result to see if we are currently on a platform where > that function is broken (I think there was such a test for > poll() and some other functions). IMHO, that's broken sw engineering from ground up. BTW: python is one of the packages didn't pass a single one of my QM constraints (hey, not completely corrent, IMHO, install prefix was passed ;-O) 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------