Cross-compilers.

[Andy Green]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 14:37 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>>> BTW: perl is the least problematic part of the autotools. The most
>> Unless you want to crosscompile perl so autotools can run on your 
>> target, which is an interesting experience involving a full configure 
>> and build for the host to generate a host miniperl so that a perl-using 
>> cross build for a non-host target can complete :-O
> You don't need perl to configure/build/install packages to cross-compile
> - cross compiling perl ... that's a different issue ...

Sure, hence "so autotools can run on your target".  The issue is 
pertinent though if people think about a truly crosscompilable distro, 
Python and Perl at least will cause a lot of trouble.  Although of 
course if they are helped through it everyone would benefit.

Fedora package configure options as they are would also be extremely fat 
on most kinds of embedded hardware.

-Andy