[aspell-devel] Re: [Aspell-user] Manuel Installation and use.

[Christoph Hintermüller]

Am Dienstag, 4. November 2003 05:56 schrieb James Supancic:
> I want to write a spell-check program for a Sharp Zaurus. I would like
> to use aspell, but I have the following problems
>
> A: I cant do ./configure, make, make install because the system to
> install to is differnt then the system that will be compiling (Im doing
> a cross compile).
Hm
Which compiler are you using for building gcc??

> B: Basicly I want to know, what order I should compile individual
> componets, and ware I should put them, and then how do I make sure
> everythings working. How should I set up my makefiles? I cant use the
> ones made by ./configure or the ones that came with it. Can I use progen
> and tmake?
Hm but a better aproach would be if you could try to add some 
corsscompiling feature to ./configure, have a closer look at automake 
autoconf and at the main Makefile.am which is turned ito Makefile.in by 
automake and the later ist runed into the final Makefile by configure.

When using the automake autoconf variant you would only have to deal with 
the crosscompile specific things and not with the whole build process of 
aspell. If you do it properly in best case others needing different 
crosscompile would only need to add further values for a specific 
configure option and voila they thave their aspell version.

After you are done pleas don't forget to send patch.

cu
Christoph
ps.: the proper mailing list for this is aspell-devel more there

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