Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote:
> All I can say is "don't hold your breath". I first picked up "this
> particular torch" in around 1990. I suspect that others picked it up
> before then. The compiler group had always responded, "not worth the
> test matrix". It also seems that we were the major requestors - it
> seems that our ISVs didn't trust cross-compiling (when it comes to final
> builds, would we?).
> Maybe something has changed, but I don't suspect anything has.
The problem with crosss compilations is that it does not really work if the
software uses dynamic autoconfiguration for portability.
You would first need to hand craft _all_ autoconfiguration results for the
target platform.
J?rg
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