Ports to other architectures was Re: Fedora Core on the Alpha

Thomas Vander Stichele thomas at apestaart.org
Wed Aug 11 10:11:02 UTC 2004


Hi,

> I spent a lot of time trying to get the distro to cross-compile, a
> couple of years ago. The problem wasn't so much hardcoding CC, it was
> mostly the plethora of autocrap scripts which prevented portable
> cross-compilation. They'd run some test on the _host_ and make
> inferences about the behaviour/wordsize/etc of the _target_. 
> 
> Ban autotools and make people write proper makefiles, and the distro
> would cross-compile a lot better. :)

You've got to be kidding.  The developer abuses the tool, so ban the
tool ? Autotools if used correctly are an incredible benefit for
architectures that are less popular, since it's easier to abstract all
the crap you have to deal with.

Thomas

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