Re: The 'cross' directory

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > Nothing broke it.  Emacs never supported cross compilation in the past,
>   > since Emacs is needed on the build machine to compile Lisp and dump
>   > itself.
>
> In the past, building Emacs was cleanly separated into building
> `temacs' and then using it to dump.  We included .elc files in the tar
> ball so that users did not need to compile any Lisp code unless they
> changed Lisp source.  (Byte-compiling Lisp code was slow and the .elc
> files were portable.)
>
> So I think it should have worked to make `temacs' cross-compiling
> and then run the rest on the target machine.  That should have been
> easy because it did not need to compile or link any C code.
>
> That may still be workable.  `make temacs' ought to work ok under
> cross-compilation, and the rest could be done on the target machine
> without a C compiler or linker if `make temacs' has done its job.
>
> Does this work?

I don't know.  That being said, the cross directory is not used for this
form of cross-compilation.