On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 12:58:34 -0700 (PDT)
Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
[cross compiling]
But I'd argue that's exactly what a configure
script is *not* for. It's
supposed to look at the system you're compiling for and adapt itself
accordingly.
Exactely. The configure system has to investigate the build
environemet, the tools and the target system and adapt everything to
this. "Native" compiling is only a very special case of this process,
where cross compiling is the general case.
The problem with Perl is, that its configuration system makes cross
compiling simply impossible. There isn't even a choice to feed the
build options manually into the system.
I have to manually feed GNU autoconf so much stuff
that it misdetects
that there might as well not be a ./configure at all.
That is so true. Every time I
touch autoconf, I have to sledgehammer on
it to make it work... :-(((
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