On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 09:47 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 07:58 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > > > It would be great if Fedora could be cross compiled using any host > > > system to produce binaries for any target system, be it a supported and > > > rare host (s390, ia64) or an entirely new target (arm, mips*). > > > > You'll never do that until we ban autoconf in packaging. > > Sigh - Will you ever stop reiterating this FUD? > All properly packaged "single-targeted" autoconf/automake based packages > do support cross-compilation, OTB. Then there are few of what you call 'properly packaged single-targeted' packages out there, because seamless support for cross-compilation has _not_ been my experience. > Few packages do support mixed native/cross compilation and even less do > support multi-target configurations. > > > Packages in _general_ won't cross-compile. > Yes, because many packagers don't test it and because rpm doesn't > support it. I've spent a lot of time attempting to cross-build the distribution. RPM actually handles it just fine -- the problems were mostly caused by the (possibly incorrect) use of autotools in the package itself. I agree, however, that there is nothing _fundamentally_ evil about autotools. Autotools don't kill cross-compilation; people do. Autotools just seem to make it easy. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
