On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: >>> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 08:23 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: >>>> Rob Landley wrote: >>>> > However, having one or more full-time engineers devoted to debugging >>>> > cross-compile issues is quite a high price to pay too. Moore's law really >>>> > doesn't help that one. >>>> > >>>> > I'm not saying either solution is perfect, I'm just saying the "build under >>>> > emulation" approach is a viable alternative that gets more attractive as time >>>> > passes, both because of ongoing development on emulators and because of >>>> > Moore's law on the hardware. >>>> >>>> I agree with much that you have said, Rob, and I understand the argument >>>> for getting the most gain from the least resources, but I have a philosophical >>>> problem with working around the cross-compilation problems instead of fixing >>>> them in the upstream packages (or in the autoconf system itself). >>>> >>>> Once someone fixes the cross-compilation issues for a package, they usually >>>> stay fixed, if the fixes are mainlined. >>> >>> I don't think that's true, unfortunately. Autoconf makes it _easy_ to do >>> the wrong thing, and people will often introduce new problems. >>> >>> If we just made people write portable code and proper Makefiles, it >>> would be less of an issue :) >> >> people cant even write proper *native* makefiles. mtd-utils for example ;). > > What's wrong with it? I'll fix it. is linux-mtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx not the place to post ? that's where i sent the first fix yesterday ... not that i'm subscribed since i dont have a direct interest in mtd development ... -mike -- 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
