On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 12:27 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 07:09 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > > Autotools also makes it extremely hard to debug a cross compilation problem. > > Neither does it deal with repeatability, consider what happens if you cross > > build a package during beta and it works then native build it during final > > and it doesn't. The vaguaries of the compiler and cross compiler suite can > > cause this to bite you very occasionally. > > I particularly like the way bridge-utils will build _entirely_ > differently according to whether it happens to detect libsysfs in the > system or not. And sometimes it fails to detect libsysfs even when it's > present, so it silently builds for a 2.4 kernel :) Blame this package's authors and don't blame the tools ;) Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
