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Re: Cross-compiling GNUstep?
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Richard Frith-Macdonald |
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Re: Cross-compiling GNUstep? |
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Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:25:08 +0100 |
On 27 Sep 2011, at 19:09, David Chisnall wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
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> HP has kindly sent me a TouchPad to play with, so I wanted to run GNUstep on
> it. I've managed to get clang to use their cross-build toolchain, but I'm
> having problems with the configure script for -base. It just aborts if
> you're cross compiling.
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> Am I the first person to try cross-compiling GNUstep? I was fairly sure
> Nikolaus had done this before.
I've never tried it.
> Is there an easy way to tell the configure thing 'really, I know what I'm
> doing, just trust me...' and have it assume that the test programs will work?
> I can always tweak configure options until they actually later...
I don't know a huge lot about autoconf ... but why not just run configure on
another, working, system. Then copy the resulting files, and change them as
you see fit.