On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:22:48AM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> > would consider doing cross-development? What part of it
> > seems to you to be a show-stopper?
>
> A major problem get the thing in which the configure try to
> begin to build executables and guess on the behaviour of the
> OS to run on. This ends to be a hack and reminds me on
> "pre gnu configure" times where one had to deal
> with hundrets of "config.h" or "os.h" files.
>
> If you are going to use anything like a package format
> might it be "rpm" or "deb" the dependencies tend to be
> utterly broken as the dependcies are guessed by stuff like
> "ldd" output and friends.
So if you would have a `cross ldd', things would be better?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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