On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:28 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > > > If you opt to cross-compile, having to deal with those > > > sorts of things is the price you pay. > > > > If the build system derives from autoconf, then a hacked-up config.cache (or > > equivalent command-line args) often solves problems for me. Just give the cache > > the answers that it would otherwise have to get by running code on the target > > machine. > > > > That's how emdebian is doing a bunch of their stuff, and I have to admit that it > > works pretty darned well. It's also handy for configuration management, since > > the cache file itself is plaintext and therefore svn/git/bzr/cvs/...-friendly. > > Yeah, I was building Red Hat Linux packages for sh3 many years ago, > using tricks like that. But there was always _something_ else going > wrong, however much you hacked around it. And a lot of it would only > turn up at runtime, not build time. I would never consider shipping a > product with a large number of userspace packages cross-compiled. > > For minimal file systems with a select handful of tools which can be > tested exhaustively, it's not so bad. But for any 'full-featured' > userspace, I think cross-compilation is completely insane. So, how does OpenWRT manage to survive? With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Sony Techsoft Centre The Corporate Village · Da Vincilaan 7-D1 · B-1935 Zaventem · Belgium Phone: +32 (0)2 700 8453 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 8622 E-mail: Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx Internet: http://www.sony-europe.com/ Sony Technology and Software Centre Europe A division of Sony Service Centre (Europe) N.V. Registered office: Technologielaan 7 · B-1840 Londerzeel · Belgium VAT BE 0413.825.160 · RPR Brussels Fortis 293-0376800-10 GEBA-BE-BB
