Re: userland packages

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:27:25AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > So you probably never tried to crosscompile something with extensive
> > autoconf scripts like Gnome.  It's a major pain to get that done right.
> 
>  Well, for sane scripts that can be handled easily by defining problematic
> cache variables to reasonable values.  The real problem are helper
> programs used to build architecture-dependent data, see e.g. tic in
> ncurses. 

Or as one more example rpcgen in libc.  Last I checked libc did cheat and
omit all the affected parts of libc when crosscompiling.  Não bom.

  Ralf