On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:35:02PM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote: > Mark Murray wrote: > > > > However, you don't need the latest perl to do this. What's wrong with > > > building this extension in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/library/Fcntl > > > with /usr/bin/perl during make world? > > > > Because that uses MakeMaker, and MakeMaker is hostile to cross-builds. > > Amen to that.
You may be interested to know that Vadim Konovalov is having some progress in getting a useable cross-compilation setup with MakeMaker (for WinCE on Win32, but the work looks portable enough). -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
