Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Cc: Petric Frank <pfrank@×××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Cross compiling libperl
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:26:15
Message-Id: 200711200026.23435.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Cross compiling libperl by Petric Frank
1 On Monday 19 November 2007, Petric Frank wrote:
2 > On Montag, 19. November 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > > The problem is that the build process compiles a test program for the
4 > > > destination platform and afterwards it tries to execute it.
5 > > > This will never work when cross compiling.
6 > > >
7 > > > Are there any workarounds available (patches for the ebuild, etc.) ?
8 > >
9 > > only workaround for perl is to get a binary or build it natively
10 > >
11 > > i have a work-in-progress patch on wh0rd.org's svn
12 >
13 > I've found it. Shall i do a test with it or is it currently too unstable ?
14
15 i'm pretty sure the code that is in there is fine, but it's incomplete ... so
16 unless you feel like hackin on the patch to flesh it out more, dont bother
17 -mike

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