Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: gr_python.m4

[Stephane Fillod]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:30:02PM -0700, Eric Blossom wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:04:55AM +0200, Stephane Fillod wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 05:24:59PM -0700, Eric Blossom wrote:
> > 
> > > So, then the question becomes, "what's the easiest way to build GNU
> > > Radio for a windows target?"
> > 
> > I would say natively. Since I'm a developer and not a Windows final
> > user, I'll be the only one doing cross-development.
> > 
> > > I thought that most people ran MinGW under windows.  I take it that
> > > you are running it under linux and generating windows binaries.
> > > Perhaps a quicker path is just to make GNU Radio build under MinGW
> > > running under windows?  Then the cross development issues go away.
> > 
> > I'd like, if possible, to keep the ability to cross-build MinGW under
> > Linux. This is very handy to check the portabilty, from the same source
> > tree (VPATH), without having to reboot.
> 
> OK.  Can we have these goals:
> 
>   * builds natively under MinGW
>   * builds cross-compiled from x86 GNU/Linux
>   * doesn't break anything else

Ok.

> > I think this is possible cheaply thanks to the autoconf cache and
> > some ac_cv_* variable overload from the configure line. I'll come up
> > with a config/gr_python.m4.
> 
> Thanks.  
> 
> You may want to consider the distutils fragment with the replace
> operation that floated across the list a couple of days ago.  
> I haven't applied it to gr_python.m4 and will hold off pending your patch.

Don't hold off. I'm off for the week-end, so you can go ahead with it.

-- 
Stephane