From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:16:53 -0800 Received: from u-180.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.21.180]:13067 "EHLO u-180.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:16:40 -0800 Received: (ralf@lappi) by lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:41:46 +0100 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:41:46 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Jun Sun , Pete Popov , "linux-mips@oss.sgi.com" Subject: Re: userland packages Message-ID: <20001030224146.G24185@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20001028012745.B2813@bacchus.dhis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:27:25AM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing 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