Re: patch to allow cross-compilation of glib

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Raja R Harinath wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> writes:
> > at the moment, glib can not be cross-compiled, since it executes
> > the glib-genmarshal binary created for the target platform during
> > the build. 
> 
> Maybe it shouldn't.  Isn't the output of 'glib-genmarshal' target
> independent.  I think the best option is to create 'gmarshal.c' on a
> native build, and cross-compile that.
> 
> So, 
> 
>     cd path/to/glib
>     mkdir -p build/native build/cross
>     cd build/native && do native configure && make
>     cd ../cross && do cross configure --disable-rebuilds && make
> 
> should do the trick.

good idea. i spoke to mitch on irc about this and allowing for
an externally callbale glib-genmarshal was the obvious thing that
came to mind for me.
however if this can be avoided and the above way works, i'd rather
not allow overriding glib-genmarshal from configure.in (have some
performance hacks pending which really require glib<->llib-genmarshal
version matches).

sven, can you make sure this works for you? if so, please
commit just the cosmetic cleanups to configure.in ;)

> 
> - Hari

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ciaoTJ