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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Subject: Re: Texlive and native-inputs
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:51:44 +0100
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 06:39:48PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Would it work? One would need to patch-shebang with the normal input and
> use the native-input for scripts that are used during the build process.
> Is this distinguished somehow? (Well, there is of course the problem of
> scripts that are used during the build process _and_ installed on the user's
> machine, which means that the package is simply not cross-compilable in
> our setting.

In a sense this is what happens with texlive. "make check" uses perl scripts,
and other perl scripts are installed.

But then I suppose that "make check" does not make much sense anyway when
cross-compiling? Do we activate it then?

Andreas