# from David E. Wheeler
# on Monday 02 February 2009 09:26:
>>But, if I wanted to determine the win32
>> dependencies from Linux (for e.g. bundled packaging from a single
>> build
>> machine), I would have to set $^O to get the right answer -- and
>> that might have undesired side-effects.
>
>Why would you want to do that?
Because I want to be able to build a PAR/exe/whatever for more than one
platform from a single system. I could "just" jump through a bunch of
hoops trying to automate it with ssh, but I've done that already and it
wasn't fun.
And yes, that may or may not involve cross compilers or caching
binaries. I could go into great detail, but suffice to say I've been
there and wanted something which is not easily had from "run the
script" dependency resolution.
Or maybe I want to fetch all of the necessary tarballs for a given
platform and bundle them into a package -- or e.g. just the deltas for
updating already-deployed code.
--Eric
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