On May 16, 2005, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And package maintainers will never take cross-compilation seriously even > if they really want to because they, for the most part, can't test it.
configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu \ --host=i686-somethingelse-linux-gnu should be enough to exercise most of the cross-compilation issues, if you're using a sufficiently recent version of autoconf, but I believe you already knew that. The most serious problem regarding cross compilation is that it's regarded as hard, so many people would rather not even bother to try to figure it out. So it indeed becomes a hard problem, because then you have to fix a lot of stuff in order to get it to work. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
