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Re: Autoconf does not support cross compilation.


From: Basin Ilya
Subject: Re: Autoconf does not support cross compilation.
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:03:25 +0530
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Hi.
Some authors indeed forget about cross compilation when they publish
their m4 to autoconf-archive.

Good example is byte order check aka endianness. Before endian.h one way
to check it was to run a program. But the cross-compile alternative was
to grep the binary for a magic byte sequence without running.

Sometimes running is the only option though. There are two possible
behaviors in case of cross compile I think: 1) to assume some result or
2) to fail configure unless some explicit result is provided on
configure command line.

10.03.2017 8:50, R0b0t1 пишет:
> Hello,
> 
> Others as well as myself have encountered issues with cross compiling
> various programs making use of configuration scripts created with
> autoconf. The main issue is that the cross compilation environment
> causes configuration scripts to produce feature detection binaries
> matching the architecture of the compilation target, not the
> compilation host. E.g. the script will try to run an ARM binary on an
> x86 processor.
> 
> Here are two example bugs, filed with the respective project in the
> hopes of an interim solution:
> 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50385
> https://gitlab.com/jas/libidn2/issues/6
> 
> Per my reasoning in those bug reports, my suggestion is to provide
> another way to pass information to the configuration script. While it
> seems possible to make configuration scripts compile and run binaries
> of the proper architecture any results they obtain are irrelevant as
> they reflect the capabilities of the host, not the target.
> 
> R0b0t1.
> 



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