Florian Lohoff wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:22:48AM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > > > > I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. That no one would > > consider using your Debian cross environment? That no one > > I am not building cross, i am not building the debian cross > toolchain. Just for completeness. > > > 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. > While it is a pain for some packages, it is actually not too bad for most of them. I think we (mvista) are rolling out cross-compiled 250+ packages for 5 major CPU architectures and 21 sub-architectures - where most of them are based on debian sources. :-) > 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. > There are some tools which make it work right. mvista has one. I think Merceij has one too. Jun
