* Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:

Hi,


> There's also qemu.  You can native build under emulation.

did you ever consider that crosscompiling is not only good for 
some other arch, but a few more things ?
 
> In addition, if you have a cross compiler but don't want to spend all your 
> time lying to ./configure, preventing gcc from linking against the host's 
> zlib or grabbing stuff out of /usr/include that your target hasn't got, or 

#1: use a proper (sysroot'ed) toolchain
#2: fix broken configure.in's (and feed back to upstream or OSS-QM)
#3: replace libtool by unitool

> trying to figure out why on EARTH the perl build decided to use x86 signal 

Perl never was crosscompile-capable.
I've rewrote much of the buildscripts, but not finished yet.

Just in case that anyone's interested in it, let me know.

> libraries are linked inside the emulator, anything that wants to look 
> at /proc or sysinfo does it natively inside the emulator...)

Only crap sw looks at /proc at build time.
Yes, there's *much* crap sw out there :(


cu
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