Re: runit not ready for cross-compilation

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

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, 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:

Sure, and sometimes it's broken. And always it's overcomplicated.

> The packager can specify test results for the given target ...

Which is essentially what I'm doing.

> 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.

But let's not talk too much about autoconf. Would anyone care to comment 
about my workaround? Is it "good enough" (so that the build system doesn't 
need to be rewritten)? Would someone care to document the correct h1/h2 
choices for various platforms?