* Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > Cross compiling breaks stuff, yes. > > Most packages don't cross compile at all. Debian has somewhere north of > 30,000 packages. Every project that does large scale cross compiling > (buildroot, gentoo embedded, timesys making fedora cross compile, etc) tends > to have about 200 packages that cross compile more or less easily, another > 400 or so that can be made to cross compile with _lot_ of effort and a large > enough rock, and then the project stalls at about that size. The problem is: most embedded projects don't make really general-purpose fixes (instead strange things like hacking up autogenerated files), so they can't feed back to upstream. IMHO, a huge waste of working time. Did someone ever hear of the OSS-QM project ? > Some of the other build systems out there hook qemu application emulation up > to the kernel's misc binary support so a ./configure that builds arm > executables can run them. WTF ?! cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html