Re: XFree 4.0.1 on mips, mipsel

[Guido Guenther <guido.guenther@gmx.net>]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:57:56AM +0400, Gleb O. Raiko wrote:
> > Does X building ever need the hostcompiler?
> 
> This depends on your taste basically. If you want 'clean' build w/o
> stupid errors, you should define CROSS_COMPILE and other macros to be
> used diring cross compilation. After that, X understands there are
> hostcompiler and crosscompiler. Then, makedepend & Co are compiled by
> hostcompiler and X server itself are compiler by cross compiler. In
> principle, you may safely ignore all that stuff and be ready to build
> makedep & Co manually.
"define CROSS_COMPILE" is not perfect yet. E.g. xkbcomp is compiled for
target architecture(since it's needed there) but the build process also tries 
to execute it on the host, same for pswrap.
Regards,
 -- Guido

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