On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:26:11AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Cross-compilation is IMHO so broken when it comes to userspace > > than noone really thinking of having something reusable would > > consider this. It all ends beeing a really ugly hack. > > I disagree. It's not that userland cross-compilation is broken. It's > just the matter of certain programmers who do not care to write > scripts/Makefiles to support cross-development portably. They might even > not realize there exists such a feature as cross-compilation. Brokeness starts with autoconf's AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macro implementation which is used frequently throughout a whole distribution and there are so many test that require actually execution of code on the target that fix a whole distribution for crosscompilation and keeping it uptodate is seriously double-plus un-fun. Ralf
