Re: building gen-scmconfig.c on FreeBSD

[Rob Browning]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Vögele <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> gen-scmconfig.$(OBJEXT): gen-scmconfig.c
>>      $(CC_FOR_BUILD) $(DEFS) $(INCLUDES) -c -o $@ $<;
>
> Yep, I'd been meaning to do that.  But probably omitting $INCLUDES,
> since they're likely to be host-system things, not build-system.
> $DEFS probably only has -DHAVE_CONFIG_H, and may be unnecessary too.
>
> One thing for a proper cross-compile is to figure out
> $OBJEXT_FOR_BUILD, which may be different from the host system.  I'd
> planned to go straight to an executable rather than through an obj.

I can't recall offhand.  Is CC_FOR_BUILD for executables that will be
run on the host system?  If not, then we shouldn't be using it at all.
gen-scmconfig has to be run at build time by the host to generate the
header, so it needs to be built by the host's compiler.  Note that
gen-scmconfig.c doesn't (and must not) depend on any target specific
computations like sizeof(foo), etc.  It is solely used as a portable
way to generate scmconfig.h, taking into account the contents of
config.h.

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Rob Browning
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