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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dealing with cross-compilation
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:04:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fxgto6nv.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873actn05f.fsf_-_@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:10:36 +0200")

Hi,

On Tue 31 Mar 2009 09:10, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> writes:
>
>> So, building guile probably needs either to build guile as a host tool
>>
>>   if host != target, preferably in an objdir, and then that can be used.
>>
>>   take a --with-guile that points to a working host guile, and people
>>   doing cross builds will have to build guile first.
>
> Right, we could use an already installed Guile 1.8/1.9 when
> cross-compiling.  That means we have to make sure the compiler can run
> on top of 1.8.  I think this is currently the case.  Andy?

The compiler won't work on 1.8, I don't think. But you could install a
1.9 on the host, and that would work -- modulo some endianness issues
that would need to be sorted out for a host guilec to be able to
cross-compile to the target.

Andy
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-31 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-26 17:08 Guile 1.8 success on `i386-apple-darwin9.6.0' Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-26 18:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-26 21:10   ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-26 21:36     ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-26 22:21       ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-27  8:58         ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-27 20:14           ` Neil Jerram
2009-03-27 13:48       ` Greg Troxel
2009-03-27 14:54         ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-27 18:34           ` Greg Troxel
2009-03-31 16:10             ` Dealing with cross-compilation Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-31 19:04               ` Andy Wingo [this message]

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