Re: cross-compiling philosophy

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Eggert
Larry Doolittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is autoconf-2.57g a reasonable base, or do I need to start from CVS? Please use CVS. That way, you can use "cvs update" to keep up to date. We prefer patches against CVS. We probably won't be able to fold in anything until after 2.58 comes out, so

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2003-10-30 Thread Patrick Welche
By the time configure & libtool have done there thing on a system, they know whether or not that system needs a -Wl,-R${libdir} or not. Is there a way of getting that information out simply? (In order to create a pkg-config file with a sensible --libs entry) Cheers, Patrick

Re: cross-compiling philosophy

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Doolittle
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:24:59AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > There are an infinite number of ways to run executables on a target. > How is configure to know how to run executables on a target? As I imagined, and Paul Eggert made explicit, by the person configuring the system typing conf

Re: cross-compiling philosophy

2003-10-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 08:24, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Larry Doolittle wrote: > > > I know this subject keeps coming up. I hope my > > suggestions are taken as constructive (presumably > > for post-2.58). > > > > I ran into one more package (GNU screen-3.9.15) where > > the au

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Re: cross-compiling philosophy

2003-10-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
> You're right, this has nothing to do with the package maintainer, > and everything to do with the build/test environment. > I guess I didn't describe it very well. We will have to > document the syntax of this command/script. One argument, > which is a shell command to run on the target? The f

Re: cross-compiling philosophy

2003-10-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Larry Doolittle wrote: > I know this subject keeps coming up. I hope my > suggestions are taken as constructive (presumably > for post-2.58). > > I ran into one more package (GNU screen-3.9.15) where > the authors used autoconf, and made no provision for > cross-compiling. I