ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hmm, right.  OTOH, my impression was that tools like Scratchbox had
> taken the world over, meaning that cross-compilation usually takes place
> as "native" compilation in an emulated target environment.

I don't think that's true at all.  It could be that for running Linux on
arm pdas that's what most people do, but for the far more general case
there is normal cross compiling as autoconf has supported for years.

I am working on a project that does cross builds of a lot of software;
none of it uses scratchbox.

I can certainly see the point of something like scratchbox, to ease the
process and work around software that has non-cross-clean build systems.
But I wouldn't say it's time to give up on the normal/traditional way.