Re: mozilla-* porter help needed for ARM
In message <20051004131841.GP7949@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:43:22AM -0400, Stephen Pinker wrote:
> > Not able to cross-compile?
>
> Many packages won't cross compile due to using autoconf which is
> braindead when it comes to allowing cross compiling.
>
On the contrary, autoconf makes many things consistent and predictable
when cross compiling, and improvements to autoconf and other tools have
made the possibility of cross compiling much more likely for a given
package. You're more likely to have a problem with a package that
doesn't use it.
However, the setup for Debian packages isn't always ideal for cross
building even though Mozilla certainly does.
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