+++ Enrico Weigelt [2010-12-04 23:27 +0100]: > * Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> schrieb: > > > > Crosscompiling w/o sysroot is simply stupid. Period. > > > > If your argument relies on abuse then you've already lost. > > Already said something about that in another mail. > The main problem of not-crosscompiling is the fundamentally wrong > assumption, that the building system is completely compatible > with the actual target. In embedded environments, thats almost > never the case. Same for dozens of other specific (non distro) > environments.
You are quite right that for cross-building stuff that is not compatible between host and target sysroot is a very sensible way of doing it. However for stuff that _is_ compatible it's nice not to have to install a whole extra system and to use the symmetric paths of multiarch. And multiarch works within a sysroot environment too - they are not incompatible. It's true that the current use of the old libdir paths which are neither sysroot nor multiarch is a pain and involves a lot of tiresome hackery. Hopefully we won't have to maintain that much longer. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-embedded-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101205002913.gf...@dream.aleph1.co.uk
