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[bug#32624] [PATCH] gnu: perl: Add support for cross-compilation
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Raphaël Mélotte |
Subject: |
[bug#32624] [PATCH] gnu: perl: Add support for cross-compilation |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 12:13:10 +0200 |
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Ludovic Courtès writes:
> I tested a variant of this patch with --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf.
> During the ‘configure’ phase, I see:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Checking for cross-compile
> No targethost for running compiler tests against defined, running locally
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Then the build completes but the result is a set of x86_64 (native)
> binaries.
>
> So I suppose some more work in needed to really cross-compile. Maybe we
> need to pass specific configure flags?
Ok, thanks for checking.
After some web searching and according to the following page, cross-compiling
perl isn't an easy
task:
https://arsv.github.io/perl-cross/index.html
Do you think it would be a good idea to package perl-cross and use it
when cross-compiling ?
The other option (giving -Dtargethost to the configure script) seems to require
a target host to be available with an ssh
server running.
> (BTW, I think I already wrote this but you don’t need to cross-compile
> if all you want is 32-bit binaries. Simply use “-s i686-linux” for
> that.)
Yes you mentioned it a few month ago, and that helped me a lot back
then :-)
I wanted to come back to trying to cross-compile some packages because
I find it interesting (the idea of remotely building packages for other
architectures
is so cool).
Thanks,
Raphaël.