Re: cross compiling in general

[David Burgess <dabsoft@...>]

> 2) Makefiles often have things like CFLAGS and CC hardcoded

Having been into make lately, it would seems that there a lot of
confusion about make (or GNU make anyway) defaults.

1. methinks CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS separation is helpful (never happens)


On 5/3/2010 11:18 AM, Rory Toma wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:35:45 -0800
> > Rory Toma<rory@ooma.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I notice that every package that I cross compile, I have to, at a
> > > minimum, rewrite the configure scripts and often the Makefiles. What
> > > is the standard lua way of building for cross-compile?
> > /path/to/your/cross-compiler -Isrc etc/all.c -o lua
> >
> > Is one approach.
> >
> > B.
> It's not that, it's that all the support scripts seem to be standardized
> in a way which
>
> 1) wants to call the local lua on the build machine to get installation
> info
> 2) Makefiles often have things like CFLAGS and CC hardcoded
> 3) There is usually no support for things like $(DESTDIR)
>
> Each set of files looks similar enough that they probably are based on
> the same original set, yet each is different enough that they have to be
> tweaked by hand.