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* crosscompile problem
@ 2005-08-26 12:00 Enrico Weigelt
  2005-08-26 12:18 ` [Caml-list] " David MENTRE
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Enrico Weigelt @ 2005-08-26 12:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi folks,

it seems that crosscompiling ocaml is currently impossible. 
The whole ./configure stuff heavily relies on running several 
test programs checking target stuff (ie. sizeof()).
Of course this cannot work on cross targets. 

I started to add some options for bypassing such tests, 
ie. --32bit and --64bit, but this doesnt go far enough and 
also requires distro builders to add special fixes for this 
package on every target.

Since almost all packages have to cope with this problem and
also widely used buildsystems like autoconf also have no clean
way of handling this, I suggest moving away this configuration
from individual packages to some central point - an global 
config database.
We query this database by simply calling some given commandline
with the variable name as parameter. The value is simply printed
out on stdout, without linefeed.

For example to get some type sizes:

    /opt/xcompiler/minibox/bin/buildconf-query host.ansi-c.sizes.long


This can be easily solved by a tiny shellscript and some carefully
maintained text database. (see attachement)


I'll now starting to rewrite the configure script ...


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#!/bin/bash

DB=/install/config/systems/jail/etc/buildconf/buildconf.db

if [ ! "$1" ]; then
    echo "$0 <query>";
    exit 1;
fi

QUERY="$1";
OUT=`cat $DB | grep -E "^$QUERY:" | sed -e "s/^$QUERY://;" | sed 's/	/    /g;' | sed "s/^ *//"`
echo -n "$OUT"

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### system build configuration stuff for: JAIL (HOMER)

host.cpu.family:		x86
host.cpu.type:			athlon-xp
host.cpu.has-mmx:		yes
host.cpu.has-mmx2:		yes
host.name:			jail
host.ansi-c.sizes.short:	2
host.ansi-c.sizes.long:		4
host.ansi-c.sizes.longlong:	8

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2005-08-26 12:00 crosscompile problem Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 12:18 ` [Caml-list] " David MENTRE
2005-08-26 12:33   ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 12:18 ` Sebastian Egner
2005-08-26 13:50   ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 13:42 ` Eric Cooper
2005-08-26 17:38   ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 20:11     ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 19:50   ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 22:47 ` skaller
2005-08-27  6:20   ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-28 17:39     ` Quôc Peyrot

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