From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@eit.uni-kl.de>
Subject: Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:06:39 +0200
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On Monday 16 June 2008 13:39:46 you wrote:
...
> > > If you're going to rewrite Autotools using GNU Make, why not ask if
> > > another tool would be better, perhaps a tool specially designed for
> > > the job?
> >
> > Go ahead.
>
> The first part of going ahead is to brainstorm and find ideas and
> likely interest...  It's too big (as you rightly note) to simply sit
> down and do it by oneself in isolation.

You are not seriously talking about writing yet another buildsystem ?
With autotools, cmake, scons, ant, (b)jam, bitbake, makeng, etc. there should 
be enough available.

Alex