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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Ross Biro <ross.biro@mindspring.com>, 13479@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13479: Cross Compiling for ARM
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:42:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obgfw5sd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsj5z9qph.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:26:49 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Obviously, I also had to CANNOT_DUMP=yes as well.
>
> That's a problem that would need to be solved, of course, because there
> are invariably more bugs in this mode of operation.
>
>> 1) ... However make-docfile and test-distrib need to be built with
>> the local compiler...
>
> We could incorporate this part of your changes, I think.
>
>> 2) The lisp and leim directories really want a local copy of Emacs to
>> compile.
>
> ...
> An alternative is of course to use an emulator to run src/emacs and/or
> src/bootstrap-emacs.

Using an emulator would allow dumping as well, and could also be used
for make-docfile and test-distrib.

I think gcc has similar cross-compilation bootstrapping issues which
have been solved in the makefiles, so that is probably a good example to
follow if making cross-compilation work is something someone wants to
seriously fix.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-24  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-17 19:36 bug#13479: Cross Compiling for ARM Ross Biro
2013-01-18 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-18 17:55   ` martin rudalics
2013-01-18 22:09     ` Ross Biro
2013-01-19 10:11       ` martin rudalics
2013-01-23  3:49         ` Ross Biro
2013-01-23  7:31           ` martin rudalics
2013-01-19  1:18     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-24  4:42   ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2024-01-10 11:11 ` Stefan Kangas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-28 18:53 bug#9192: Cross-compile " Toon Claes
2024-01-10 11:11 ` bug#13479: Cross Compiling " Stefan Kangas
2024-01-10 11:44   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-10 11:56     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-10 13:10       ` Toon Claes via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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