[OT] making software easily cross-compilable

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 07:08 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   (not crosstool-related, but i figure this is the best place to find
> > the appropriate expertise.)
>
> >   what approach do people here use?

> autotools ;)

i should have expected that. :-)

> >  that is, if i don't want to get into major pain with autotools
> > and so on, is there a preferred way to make your software easily
> > cross-compilable?  is there a *standard* way to do it?

> If a package uses modern autotools (i.e. autoconf > 2.59),
> configure --host=<cross-target>
>
> will work out of the box for many packages.

i'm assuming you meant "autoconf >= 2.59"?

rday

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