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Subject: bug#26897: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98cmake-build-system=E2=80=99?= does not
	support cross-compilation
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 18:00:41 +0200
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Currently =E2=80=98cmake-build-system=E2=80=99 does not support cross-compi=
lation, which
is becoming more and more of a problem.  For instance, it prevents
cross-compilation of Guix:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix build guix --target=3Daarch64-linux-gnu -n
guix build: error: gnu/packages/ssh.scm:59:2: libssh-0.7.4: build system `c=
make' does not support cross builds
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I think CMake supports cross-compilation in theory, so we should try to
implement it.

Ludo=E2=80=99.