On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 03:44:42PM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: > Bastiaan Jacques writes: > > On Tue, 20 May 2008, Russ Nelson wrote: > > > > > "but when cross-compiling we cannot run a test > > > program," which I don't understand. > > > > Suppose you're compiling a PowerPC program on your Intel-compatible > > system. If you have a cross compiler you'll be able to compile it. But > > you can't run the resulting program on your Intel. > > Uhhhhhhh, read ./configure. It compiles and runs programs natively. > Configure doesn't NOT work when you're cross-compiling, so I must be > missing something here.
configure needs a posix environment with the usual commands on the host (cat, sed, awk...) but should not run any program it compiles. -- Pat _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
