[PATCH] autoshit/libfool fixes

[Owen Taylor]

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 14:56 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:37:36PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > > * Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:14:32PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > > > > * Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > > > > > Sounds like a pretty odd use case.  Why don't you either use 
> > > > > > a chroot, or just not have conflicting libraries installed?  
> > > > > 
> > > > > No, its absolutely necessary if you build whole system images
> > > > > on one machine for a completely different machine (or just
> > > > > platform or libc type). Thats >90% of my daily work.
> > > > 
> > > > Again -- how is a chroot inappropriate for this task?
> > > 
> > > Did you ever get mips code running on x86 ?
> > 
> > ... so you do want a cross-compiler.
> 
> I *am* using a crosscompiler. And of couse it works with sysroot.
> But sysroot is exactly that what didnt work. 
> 
> Why is this so hard to understand ?!

People cross-compile packages using libtool *all the time*, using
unmodified libtool. I'm not really sure what "sysroot" is but I'm,
pretty sure it's not a necessary ingredient of the equation.
(and neither is a chroot)

						Owen

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