re: ORBit 0.5.8 Cross-Compile problems...
- From: Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>
- To: dank kegel com
- Cc: David Haverkamp <dahaverk rockwellcollins com>,dank alumni caltech edu, orbit <orbit-list gnome org>,Dimi Shahbaz <dimator dimator org>
- Subject: re: ORBit 0.5.8 Cross-Compile problems...
- Date: 01 Apr 2002 16:21:43 +0100
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.
--
mmeeks@gnu.org <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
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