Re: Dumb Question on Cross-Development

[Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:34:55AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:
> > A major problem get the thing in which the configure try to
> > begin to build executables and guess on the behaviour of the
> > OS to run on. This ends to be a hack and reminds me on
> > "pre gnu configure" times where one had to deal
> > with hundrets of "config.h" or "os.h" files.
> 
> While it is a pain for some packages, it is actually not too bad for
> most of them.  I think we (mvista) are rolling out cross-compiled 250+
> packages for 5 major CPU architectures and 21 sub-architectures - where
> most of them are based on debian sources. :-)

We already had the discussion on parts of that implementation. Honestly - 
I dont like the stuff - Rolling out mips packages as "noarch" is
simply broken - And the argument that one would want to install
it on a i386 nfs root is simply an excuse for a broken rpm or missing
installer.

Flo
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