Re: WAF (Was: build tools)



On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 19:41 +0100, Daniel Svensson wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 6:30 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt> wrote:
> > I honestly don't see the point of supporting runtime tests with cross
> > compilation in the build tool.  I mean, the most that the tool can do is
> > give an error message saying the test cannot be run.  How will that
> > help?  And how does autoconf get away with it?  Last I checked, autoconf
> > just gave an error message; but then how do people do cross-compilation
> > if some tests cannot be run?
> 
> If I understood Ross correctly, with a site file that keeps the
> apropriate settings for a specific build. Which in the case of waf
> would work similar to the cache file, I assume.

OpenEmbedded has central site files for each platform, such as
arm-linux.

Ross
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