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From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:38:42 -0400
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Cc: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:28:10AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>> > If you opt to cross-compile, having to deal with those
>> > sorts of things is the price you pay.
>>
>>
>> If the build system derives from autoconf, then a hacked-up config.cache (or
>> equivalent command-line args) often solves problems for me.  Just give the cache
>> the answers that it would otherwise have to get by running code on the target
>> machine.
>>
>> That's how emdebian is doing a bunch of their stuff, and I have to admit that it
>> works pretty darned well.  It's also handy for configuration management, since
>> the cache file itself is plaintext and therefore svn/git/bzr/cvs/...-friendly.
>
> Yes, that's the easy case. It's things like perl that are the corner
> cases, and my objection comes from the fact that people think we ought to
> not have the kernel depend on perl rather than just fixing the package
> itself. Autoconf/libtool damage is an entirely different problem :-)

of the core packages, perl and openssl tend to be heavily damaged.
openssl because it depends on perl instead of a real build system.
-mike