Re: Trying to cross compile glib-2.18.2 for ARM

[Robert Pearce <rob bdt-home demon co uk>]

Hi Enrico,

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:30:51 +0200 you wrote:
> 
> That's silly! If the function is there and does not behave the
> specified way, the providing package (in this case libc) is simply
> broken and has to be fixed. It's that simple.

No, that's not valid, and you're being a fascist. GTK endeavours to
work on as wide a range of systems as possible, and therefore NEEDS to
verify whether the things it uses are correctly available. If you don't
do that, if you take the "your system is broken, tough" approach that
you advocate, then you are antagonising potential users for the sake of
some ludicrous expectation that there is only one true way. You might
as well be Microsoft.

> *If* you really want some sanity test, why aren't they run in the
> 'make test' pass ?

Because it's too late, and because most people don't do it. Checking
everything in configure leads to rapid detection of problems, even if
the diagnosis gets tough on cross-compile. Also, when cross-compiling,
'make test' has problems of its own!

Now stop ranting and think a bit deeper.