David Woodhouse wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 18:39 -0600, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
Or cross builds. It would *really* make bootstrapping a new
architecture easier if we had this ability.
It's hard. When I tried cross-building for ARM and SH a long time ago, I
ran into many problems, mostly with autotools.
It requires some small modifications to most packages. In a lot of
cases, it's simply improper use of the autotools (Looking for files in
absolute paths instead of using the compiler, or running an executable
to test for functionality instead of trusting headers, etc).
The only really reliable solution I see would be full-system emulation.
Which isn't always much faster than the real hardware, unfortunately.
Full system emulation is wrong for a number of reasons, performance is
just one of them. It requires fully functional emulators as a
pre-requisite to building for the architecture, which is uncertain and
unlikely.
What do you mean by reliable? Once a package is setup to work in a
cross environment, it builds quite reliably. The main overhead is in
getting the packages to be cross friendly in the first place. Most
autotools programs already are and they just don't know it.
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