Hi Greg, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> writes:
> I don't think that's true at all. It could be that for running Linux on > arm pdas that's what most people do, but for the far more general case > there is normal cross compiling as autoconf has supported for years. > > I am working on a project that does cross builds of a lot of software; > none of it uses scratchbox. You may well have more experience than I have. > I can certainly see the point of something like scratchbox, to ease the > process and work around software that has non-cross-clean build systems. > But I wouldn't say it's time to give up on the normal/traditional way. How would you handle this particular case in a "cross-clean" way? The problem is that we need a Guile to compile the compiler. I think it's not unusual to use just-built binaries to produce some intermediate source files, especially in the area of interpreters and compilers. How do others handle it? IIRC GCC stage N uses `xgcc' from stage N-1 in the non-cross case. How does it work in the cross-compilation case? Thanks, Ludo'.
