Re: runit not ready for cross-compilation

[Alejandro Mery <amery@geeks.cl>]

Charles Duffy wrote:
> Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
>> As has earlier been pointed out, other software does do such 
>> compile-link-run testing - most or all of Dan Bernstein's software 
>> does it, as does software derived from Dan's software. I think you'll 
>> also find that some software configured via ./configure will also do 
>> such tests, just not as explicitly.
> 
> 
> Autoconf, however, has provisions for cross-compiling: The packager can 
> specify test results for the given target via environment variables; 
> defaults can be provided for use in cross-compilation environments; and 
> as many tests as possible are done *without* requiring the use of a 
> target-compiled binary.

what?? noone needs something like autoconf, just using simple sh scripts 
and a simple Makefile (instead of .c helpers) is _enough_ to make 
software cross compilable. and of course you wont run make test when 
cross compiling, and there is no need to do that.

Alejandro Mery