Re: [gentoo-embedded] Auto Repair Cross Includes?

[Ahmed Ammar]

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 10:12 -0700, Ned Ludd wrote:
> I've been toying with an idea after seeing a patch which would abort()
> when it detected host includes for cross compiles. I did not like the
> idea of aborting as it prevented me from building pkgs that had the same
> headers in $ROOT as /. I did like the fact there was a little QA I could
> slip in there. After thinking about it a while. I said fsck the QA and
> just fixed the problem. Here is what I came up with for gcc-4.2.4..
>
> While in my testing I'm finding this works beautifully. However I'd like
> some input from others on what they think of such an idea.
> Good/Bad/Other?
>
> Basic goal detect ^/usr/include and rewrite it to $ROOT/usr/include if
> using a cross compiler and ROOT is set.

I really like this idea, seems clean and simple to do it from gcc. I
haven't tested this out yet though but I can't see why it wouldn't work.


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Ahmed Ammar (b33fc0d3 [at] gentoo.org)