Re: [Help-smalltalk] arch repository has caught up

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 14:00 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Bruce Badger wrote:
> 
> >On 9/19/05, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>It strikes me as absurd that you cannot make a decision to discard an
> >>architecture if you want your package to enter Debian.
> >>
> >>Particularly when almost everybody using m68k is using uClibc or similar.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >However, the cross compiling often throws up things that really ought
> >to be fixed anyway, so getting the code to work on all architectures
> >is probably good for all architectures.
> >
> >  
> >
> So the problem with m68k is just that it is cross compiled...
> 
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=gnu-smalltalk&ver=2.1.8-2&arch=m68k&stamp=1094298817&file=log&as=raw
> 
> Indeed, genprims crashes when you try to execute it because it was not 
> compiled *on* a m68k, was it?
> 
> I guess I will have to distribute prims.inl, vm.inl and friends.
> 
> Paolo

Well in c-c environments theres usually two separate CC's defined: one
for the target platform and one for the local platform for during-build
targets. Does genprims need to be executed on the target platform or
during the build ?

Rob

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