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From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] cross-compiling and uname
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:38:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120120073812.GD20430@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120120073144.GH4854@pengutronix.de>

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 08:31:44AM +0100, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 06:30:49AM +0100, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:47:55PM +0100, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > > we had some patches lately about configure scripts etc. using
> > > uname to detect stuff. Why don't we create a fake
> > > ../sysroot-cross/bin/uname that produces the output we would
> > > expect on the target?  This way we don't have to fix all those
> > > packages and we have on less source of host system information
> > > leaking into the build.
> >
> > Are there any host tools which do also run uname? I'd prefer
> > overwriting cached variables or something like that.
>
> That's why I want to place it in sysroot-cross/bin. That's not in PATH
> for hosttools.

Hmm, I'm still not sure if this was side-effect free. However, leaving
it as it is will result in at least the same ammount of failures :-)

Marc, do you have an oppinion?

rsc
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-20  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-19 21:47 Michael Olbrich
2012-01-20  5:30 ` Robert Schwebel
2012-01-20  7:31   ` Michael Olbrich
2012-01-20  7:38     ` Robert Schwebel [this message]
2012-01-20  8:36       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2012-01-20  9:09       ` Juergen Beisert
2012-01-20  9:07 ` Juergen Beisert
2012-01-21 20:15 ` Bernhard Walle

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