On 09/01/2010 04:00 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 09/01/10 16:46, Andrew Haley wrote: >>>> rpm2cpio package | cpio -i - >>> >>> Isn't that easy, you'll have to do a bunch of fixups after doing so to >>> have things actually work. >> >> Usually not. Nine times out of ten, (probably 99 out of 100) all you >> need for cross-devel is the headers and the libraries, and they'll be >> in the right place after unpacking. The package doesn't have to work >> in that situation, it just has to be possible to build against it. > > You havn't tried that, have you? Err, yes. How else would I know? :-) > Last time I did I had to (a) move stuff from $sysroot/usr/... to > $sysroot/ to have compiler and linker find it. Well, hold on: the makefiles are surely going to have include paths, and these need to be set to something appropriate. > Also fixup paths in the > linker scripts (try 'cat /usr/lib64/libc.so'). Nothing really hard but > needs to be done. Sure. These things are really pretty simple. > If we go add cross-compilers it would be quite useful to also have an > easy ways to cross-build userspace stuff so we are not limited to kernel > cross builds ... Right, but we don't have to do everything. Anyone using a cross-compiler is pretty smart. Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
