On Wednesday 30 April 2003 14:18, Berin Lautenbach wrote: > So the question is, is it permissable to put such a basic test of a > library into the rules file that gets executed as part of the build > process? If so, are there any guidelines anywhere as to how one > > The test would involve compiling an extra piece of source and having > the makefile run it (similar to "make test" on many systems).
It's the right time to contemplate how Cross-Builds/Compilation works! (and why they don't, if you don't ;-) You must seperate the Tools (cc, ar, ld, ...) and Flags (CCFLAGS, ...) for the HOST build from the TARGET build. Alternatively perform your tests using a cpu independent langugage (sh, perl, ...). martin
