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From: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Cc: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] cross-compiling and uname
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:09:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201201201009.31805.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120120073812.GD20430@pengutronix.de>

Robert Schwebel wrote:
> 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?

The autotools already deliver the correct values for the build host and the 
target host.
The correct solution for these kind of failures in the buildsystem is to use 
the results of the autotools *correctly*.

jbe

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-20  9:09 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
2012-01-20  8:36       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2012-01-20  9:09       ` Juergen Beisert [this message]
2012-01-20  9:07 ` Juergen Beisert
2012-01-21 20:15 ` Bernhard Walle

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