> That's the right way to go about, anything that supports cross-compilation > natively, should be built that way. I think sb2 is pretty good at solving > the regular autotools package, anything totally exotic is likely to not > work and I don't want to take the design decisions to make sb2 bulletproof, > > SB1 did that and it ended up being a gigantic project which still failed to > solve 100% of the problem, requiring modifications to the build system or > custom hacks in SB1 to work around things.
Well, as far as I can see, SB2 is doin a nice job without being bloated or compilcated (left development quirks and user-messing around aside *g*)! virtually every more complex piece of software isn't bullet-proofed under any circumstance (e.g. took me some time to get the right paramters for ./configure in order to get dbus installingin /usr instead /usr/local and following the differend dir scheme there,too...) > > I don't mean if you built your toolchain with --sysroot switch, just that > if you run cross-compiling-gcc --help, do you see --sysroot as being one of > the supported options? SB2 uses that to tell it where the filesystem root > is, regardless of how the toolchain was built. lol, my bad (: yes, option is shown ...hm, trying explicitly gcc --sysroot=/home/loonatix/root-fs main.c in SB2 didn;t work either... > > > PS: I suggest to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH env var inside SB2 to > > SBOX_TARGET_ROOT/usr/lib/pkgconfig or similiar, though I don't have to > > admit I don't know the consequences in total I guess this would lead to a > > better and more correct support for this tool.. > > Do you witness a problem with it? This should be handled by the path > mapping engine. I THINK there was one of the libraries I tried to configure which nagged lacking support ...or one of the libs tried to install the .pc file into the host PKG-CONFIG dir....can't remember, and unfortunatly right now not trying Harry _______________________________________________ Scratchbox-users mailing list Scratchbox-users@lists.scratchbox.org http://lists.scratchbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scratchbox-users
