On Monday 12 January 2009 11:55:32 Mark A. Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Alexander Neundorf > > <neund...@eit.uni-kl.de> wrote: > > On Monday 12 January 2009 11:22:47 you wrote: > > ... > > > >> entire environment, QEMU allows it nicely with distcc at a reasonable > >> speed. (Albeit there is no distconfigure, but that's entirely an > >> unrelated tanget of muck and despair and rants against configure, but > >> we're not going there...) > > > > I'd be interested in hearing your issues with configure for cross > > compiling right ? > > I added cross compiling support to cmake, so I'm interested to see > > whether we did it better :-) > > > > Alex > > Actually, I've mostly avoided that with doing most of the compiles in > QEMU. I just pine for a distconfigure,
What should it do ? Basically configure tests can: -check for the existance and/or contents of files -try to build something -try to execute something already existing -try to execute something just built The last two types are the problematic ones. What do you suggest for them ? > and rant about configure in > general, since it takes quite a while to do all the checks under an > emulated host, and it checks for *stupid things* in a lot of packages, > like, "Do we have the MacOSX 10.5 SDK installed...", when it already > determined that it was running on Linux, and... You can do that too with cmake, but don't have to :-) Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
