On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 06:34:00AM -0400, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > Philip Newton wrote: > > > > On Mon, 6 May 2002 00:12:38 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Clark) > > wrote: > > > > > Cross building means cross configuring, surely? How does a cross > > > Configure determine what the target can do, when it is running on > > > the build host? > > > [As other programs are able to cross build, what magic do they use?] > > > > I've seen docs which imply "scp + ssh" (or "ftp + rsh", or whatever) > > to copy intermediate test programs to the runtime platform, execute > > them, and copy the results back to the Configure platform and analyse > > them. > > If Configure is ever changed to make cross-compiling easy, I suspect
It has already been changed. No reorganizing into two big parts was changed, just the part where something binary gets executed. Read INSTALL/"Cross-compilation". > that it will need to be reorganized into two parts -- one which simply > asks the user questions about what kind of platform is desired, and the > other of which does the actual probing of the system; by isolating the > probing of the system, it will be easier to add whatever's needed (such > as ftp/rcp/scp/rsync and rsh/ssh) to make it so that those probes occur > on some other machine. > > -- > print reverse( ",rekcah", " lreP", " rehtona", " tsuJ" )."\n"; -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
