Re: runit not ready for cross-compilation

[Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Radek Podgorny wrote:

> Well, let's get rid of all of this, then...
>
> In general there is no way to do runtime tests when building for different
> architecture. Are these tests even needed? No other software I know of
> doesn't do such things...

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.

Testing for available features and extant bugs this way is quick and 
reliable. It just doesn't work for cross compilation.

Here's something for you to try:

make clean
make clean compile load choose
cat iopause.h1 > iopause.h
cat uint64.h1 > uint64.h
make chkshsgr
cat hasshsgr.h1 > hasshsgr.h
make

You might need to use h2 in place of h1, depending on your target. Mine is 
little end MIPS.