From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>,
"Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>,
"MIPS/Linux List (SGI)" <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Dumb Question on Cross-Development
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:10:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010403171005.A31953@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010403112218.25523B-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:26:11AM +0200
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:26:11AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > Cross-compilation is IMHO so broken when it comes to userspace
> > than noone really thinking of having something reusable would
> > consider this. It all ends beeing a really ugly hack.
>
> I disagree. It's not that userland cross-compilation is broken. It's
> just the matter of certain programmers who do not care to write
> scripts/Makefiles to support cross-development portably. They might even
> not realize there exists such a feature as cross-compilation.
Brokeness starts with autoconf's AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macro implementation
which is used frequently throughout a whole distribution and there are
so many test that require actually execution of code on the target that
fix a whole distribution for crosscompilation and keeping it uptodate
is seriously double-plus un-fun.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-03 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-02 12:24 Dumb Question on Cross-Development Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 12:24 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 13:14 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-02 13:14 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-02 19:20 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 19:20 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 21:48 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-02 22:22 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 22:22 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-04-02 22:30 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-03 2:57 ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-04-04 15:17 ` Jay Carlson
2001-04-04 15:17 ` Jay Carlson
2001-04-03 6:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-04-03 9:52 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-03 9:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-03 17:34 ` Jun Sun
2001-04-04 10:02 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-04 10:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-04-04 11:02 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-04 12:15 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-04 11:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-04 11:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-04 16:05 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-04 18:06 ` Jun Sun
2001-04-04 18:45 ` Florian Lohoff
2001-04-06 9:37 ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-04-03 9:26 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-03 15:10 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-04-04 12:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-04 12:29 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-04 13:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-04 14:23 ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-04-04 15:37 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-05 10:54 ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-04-05 12:05 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-05 14:35 ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-04-05 16:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-05 12:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-06 15:30 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-07 15:29 ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-04-09 12:16 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-02 21:56 ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-04-02 23:41 ` Binutils fixed to deal with 'insmod' issue and discussion Steven J. Hill
2001-04-03 2:17 ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-04-03 8:26 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-03 17:27 ` Steven J. Hill
2001-04-04 5:57 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-04-04 16:12 ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-04-03 15:46 ` Steven J. Hill
2001-04-03 16:59 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-03 16:56 ` Steven J. Hill
2001-04-04 11:35 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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