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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][1/4] Cross-compilation enablement.

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:08:40 +0100
Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Also, if you cannot cross-compile all the tool chain (including 
> important Python-based components), what is the point in 
> cross-compiling any of them? I guess most of your patches are cleanups, 
> and mbootpack is executed on the compile host, but still I wonder. :-)
> 
>  


a) The python cross-compilation problems stem from the fact that python
facilities are being used to build your python-binding libraries.  I
don't see an easy way to tell those tools that they should be
cross-compiling. Setting CC and CFLAGS and the like is not enough; the
python tools need to realize that they must build using a python
installation that is not the installation that is being used to run the
build. 

Cross-compilation environments also tend to be fairly poor in
terms of the libraries that are present and my experience has been that
higher-level libraries and tools tend to be less cross-compilation
friendly.

b) I'm not assuming I can fix everything in one shot.

c) I can cross-compile vm-tools. 


-- 
Michal Ostrowski

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