On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Brian S. Julin wrote:
> Hmm,
>
> Even when given a --target=hppa-linux ./configure still
Sorry, I meant --host=hppa-linux (and --build=i386-linux, in this case).
And, now that I think of things, I am not so sure at all
what the correct behavior is supposed to look like. None of the
packages I have cross-compiled before (the toolchain and libc
that is) used external libs other than libc; and a search path
for the cross-libc is given on the commandline when building those.
Configure must know not to look for .so files in the normal system
directories because they are the wrong arch, and then where should it look
for cross-svgalib, for example?
It would not be horribly important, except that a lot of GGI's potential
user base are embedded systems people who would strongly prefer not
to have to compile natively, given they are compiling for weak-arm
processors. Also, given the cygwin slowness issue, cross compiling
there could be a help (I notice there are bits and peices about that
in configure.in already.)
I should download something else I know that people likely cross compile,
like fileutils, and see what it does, or maybe Thayne has experience with
this already?
--
Brian
