Re: Cross-compiling Guile 2.0

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

Hi :)

On Sun 20 Mar 2011 14:50, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> There’s already ‘%host-type’.

Ah, cool.

> However, I don’t think defining ‘%target-type’ would make sense
> since:
>
>   1. Of the GNU triplet, only the $target_arch matters for bytecode;
>
>   2. You can really choose at run-time what target you want to build
>      for, by just setting the endianness fluid.

Can I convince you otherwise?  Right now it's endianness, but I would
like to hack an ARM native compiler sometime soonish, and that's going
to be easier as a cross-compiler; and at that point you do need the
%target-type.

I guess that's my point: right now it's endianness, in the future it
will be more things, might as well go ahead and add %target-type now.

> Now, if we want to produce something comparable to cross-GCC &
> cross-Binutils[*], we could install, say, arm-linux-gnueabi-guile-tools

Yes, that sounds good, though I would be happier if we did this simply
with --program-prefix and --target.

I really don't want to add an endianness kwarg to `compile', for
example, though an endianness fluid in (language assembly) is OK for
me.

Cheers,

Andy
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