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From: Petr Ovtchenkov <ptr@void-ptr.info>
To: "Érico Nogueira" <ericonr@disroot.org>
Cc: <elfutils-devel@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] support cross compilation
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 19:34:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210526163428.2888e7ef@void-ptr.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CBNAI9VU5X0I.S4RV3J5LBS91@mussels>

On Wed, 26 May 2021 12:41:51 -0300
Érico Nogueira <ericonr@disroot.org> wrote:

> 
> Yes, we really cross.

It doesn't matter because

> We always use the release tarballs, which already have the %_dis.h
> files. This explains why we haven't hit any issues.


> Anyway, couldn't you (re)use the distribution tarball generation stuff
> for cross setups from git master?

I can. But I haven't problems with building it "directly from VCS" too,
as you see. Nevertheless there are opinion that code from VCS
could be smoothly building without procedures behind scene.

> Otherwise this would add a
> dependency on autoconf-archive for anyone generating the configure
> script locally...

Well, anyone who generate configure locally has it. Otherwise it is a
big pain ;).

> I think a final version of this patch should
> document the autoconf-archive requirement, if it's merged.

May be addition of m4/ax_prog_cc_for_build.m4 make sense?

Best regards,

--

  - ptr

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-26 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20210526073239.21270-1-ptr@void-ptr.info>
2021-05-26  7:32 ` Petr Ovtchenkov
2021-05-26 13:09   ` Érico Nogueira
2021-05-26 13:58     ` Petr Ovtchenkov
2021-05-26 15:41       ` Érico Nogueira
2021-05-26 16:34         ` Petr Ovtchenkov [this message]
2022-12-21 12:26           ` Mark Wielaard

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