Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

2015-06-25 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 16:07:20 +0100, Wookey wrote: (Guillem - I was wondering if you had any response to my post on this therad. I do. I hope I haven't derailed your progress by asking awkward questions without really providing solutions. I should really take your suggestion and try to

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

2015-06-22 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Wookey wrote: This is a worthy goal, but I've had long conversations about this, trying to think up some 'neutral' names which aren't confusing and have failed. After much hand-wringing I concluded that one might as well just use the GNU names as we use GNU conventions in

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

2015-06-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Guillem Jover guillem at debian.org writes: On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 01:34:08 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: On 05/10/2015 03:32 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: CC_FOR_BUILD = gcc Plus, what Wookey said. the above mentioned wiki pages still talk about HOSTCC and BUILDCC. Please clarify when to

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

2015-06-16 Thread Wookey
+++ Thorsten Glaser [2015-06-16 13:39 +]: There are two coëxisting sets of nomenclature for cross-compiling around. Both are “correct” and have their merits, but they come from different cultures and have different goals. Unfortunately, variables like HOSTCC, TARGET_CC, CC_FOR_BUILD,

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

2015-06-02 Thread Wookey
+++ Guillem Jover [2015-05-10 03:32 +0200]: [ Please followup on debian-devel (M-F-T set). ] Hi! There are currently two goals people are pursuing that seemed to initially conflict with each other: https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/CrossBuildableBase

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

2015-05-13 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 01:34:08 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: On 05/10/2015 03:32 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: CC_FOR_BUILD = gcc the above mentioned wiki pages still talk about HOSTCC and BUILDCC. Please clarify when to use these. I think HOSTCC and BUILDCC should never be used, because

Re: Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

2015-05-10 Thread Matthias Klose
On 05/10/2015 03:32 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: CC_FOR_BUILD = gcc the above mentioned wiki pages still talk about HOSTCC and BUILDCC. Please clarify when to use these. Are the names now final? Also I don't see OBJC and OBJCXX in use, and GOC and GDC are missing. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Allowing both cross building and using an alternative compiler

2015-05-09 Thread Guillem Jover
[ Please followup on debian-devel (M-F-T set). ] Hi! There are currently two goals people are pursuing that seemed to initially conflict with each other: https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/CrossBuildableBase https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/honorCCandCXX But they can be made to