Re: Ports to other architectures was Re: Fedora Core on the Alpha

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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:21:46AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I spent a lot of time trying to get the distro to cross-compile, a
> couple of years ago. The problem wasn't so much hardcoding CC, it was
> mostly the plethora of autocrap scripts which prevented portable
> cross-compilation. They'd run some test on the _host_ and make
> inferences about the behaviour/wordsize/etc of the _target_. 
> 
> Ban autotools and make people write proper makefiles, and the distro
> would cross-compile a lot better. :)

  Hum, isn't a Makefile.am a clean form of makefile ? Isn't a specific
automake for xcompile a better way ? Just curious...

Daniel

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