Re: Dealing with cross-compilation

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

On Tue 31 Mar 2009 09:10, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Greg Troxel <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> So, building guile probably needs either to build guile as a host tool
>>
>>   if host != target, preferably in an objdir, and then that can be used.
>>
>>   take a --with-guile that points to a working host guile, and people
>>   doing cross builds will have to build guile first.
>
> Right, we could use an already installed Guile 1.8/1.9 when
> cross-compiling.  That means we have to make sure the compiler can run
> on top of 1.8.  I think this is currently the case.  Andy?

The compiler won't work on 1.8, I don't think. But you could install a
1.9 on the host, and that would work -- modulo some endianness issues
that would need to be sorted out for a host guilec to be able to
cross-compile to the target.

Andy
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