On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:24:13PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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.
That doesn't make cross-compilation useless. > You would first need to hand craft _all_ autoconfiguration results for the > target platform. Not in the ON consolidation, for example, but yes in SFW (which really means that SFW might well never cross-build). This case will help third parties who want to cross-build using GCC but cross-link with the Solaris linker. So there are worthy use cases, even though they won't generalize to all developers. If we can also leverage this in any OpenSolaris consolidations, all the better, and if not, oh well. Nico --
