On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Phil Blundell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 09:28 -0800, Khem Raj wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Andreas Oberritter >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > The point I was trying to make is that feature detection at compile time >> > is impossible, if the feature can be disabled by the kernel config >> > (which is the case for epoll and inotify, which in turn were the >> > examples discussed on the mailing list in May 2010). You need to do >> > runtime tests in programs intended to be portable. >> >> which may not be easy to do for cross compiled packages unless they are >> patches >> to make this test dynamic > > Isn't a runtime test dynamic by definition?
yes thats what I meant I'm not quite sure how > cross-compiling is relevant to this. fact that we may not be able to do the runtime tests to configure a package while cross compiling is what I was thinking of > > p. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
