Hello Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:44:17PM CET: > 2010/3/22 Russell Shaw: > > Steffen Dettmer wrote: > >> * On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>> BTW, execution of built programs like this makes your package unsuitable > >>> for cross-compilation. Just so you're aware of that. > > Not true.
Huh? On the level of implementation Russel is working on, that is very much true. Please read the whole thread; I didn't say this is impossible. > automake does not have explicit support for building > programs with the host compiler when cross-compiling, but I have done > this successfully in the past when I needed precisely to build a > program on the host when cross compiling, using binutils's > BFD_CC_FOR_BUILD macro. It's a pity some version of this macro isn't > in autoconf, or even autoconf-archive; I shall do the latter. Why not go for Autoconf? That is where it should belong, and yes, better support for this situation would be very nice to have integrated better. > This illustrates a weirdness of autotools: poor support for installing > interpreted languages, and also conversely for build-time compiled > programs. Hey, as they say, patches welcome! Cheers, Ralf
