From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:38:12 +0100 From: Robert Schwebel Message-ID: <20120120073812.GD20430@pengutronix.de> References: <20120119214755.GF4854@pengutronix.de> <20120120053049.GC20430@pengutronix.de> <20120120073144.GH4854@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120120073144.GH4854@pengutronix.de> Subject: Re: [ptxdist] cross-compiling and uname Reply-To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de List-Id: PTXdist Development Mailing List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de Errors-To: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde 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 -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de