re: ORBit 0.5.8 Cross-Compile problems...

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Dan,

On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 23:02, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I'm just now trying to cross-compile orbit for Linux on the
> ppc405, ppc750, and sh4 processors.  On the x86, Orbit has the
> smallest footprint of any mainstream (i.e. not tcl :-) orb we've 
> seen, and I have high hopes for it.

	Interesting indeed.

> We're using glib 2 rather than the glib 1.x normally used by Orbit.
> Glib 2 uses the latest autoconf, which has lots more support for cross-compiling,
> and supposedly it's easy to relink a glib 1 application against glib 2.
> (I hope glib 2 doesn't add too much bloat; I may end up doing a little 
> surgery to disable parts of it.)

	I hope you're using ORBit2 ? it's more robust than ORBit 'stable' and
it's under active development / maintainence, whereas ORBit1 is in deep
hard freeze mode for Gnome 1.4. ORBit2 is also more modular,
comprehensible, powerful, capable, tested etc. ;-)

	Regards,

		Michael.

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