From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>, Pete Popov <ppopov@mvista.com>,
"linux-mips@oss.sgi.com" <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: userland packages
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:41:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001030224146.G24185@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1001030112027.11987A-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:27:25AM +0100
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:27:25AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > So you probably never tried to crosscompile something with extensive
> > autoconf scripts like Gnome. It's a major pain to get that done right.
>
> Well, for sane scripts that can be handled easily by defining problematic
> cache variables to reasonable values. The real problem are helper
> programs used to build architecture-dependent data, see e.g. tic in
> ncurses.
Or as one more example rpcgen in libc. Last I checked libc did cheat and
omit all the affected parts of libc when crosscompiling. Não bom.
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-30 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-27 0:36 userland packages Pete Popov
2000-10-27 2:34 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-27 17:14 ` Jun Sun
2000-10-27 23:27 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-27 23:30 ` Pete Popov
2000-10-30 10:27 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-10-30 21:41 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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