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 -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
