Re: [PATCH 3/3] SConstruct: Use 'target' option to decide whenewer to restart systemd

[Greg Troxel]

"Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> writes:

> Maybe gpsd needs an "I am cross-compiling" option?

I think this would be good, regardless of the details.

Cross compiling implies multiple things:

  anything to deal with the current system should be omitted.  Besides
  whatever about systemd (that I don't use either) there is as I
  understand it the notion on Linux that one should run 'ldconfig' after
  installing a library.  But this is a host system thing.

  When checking for features, one can try to compile programs (with the
  provided toolcahin, against the provided headers), but one cannot try
  to run them.

  probably other things I'm forgetting


and in general if we have a "are we cross compiling" variable and then
switch things on it, when that makes sense, it seems like life will be
simpler.