[Chicken-hackers] Re: bootstrapping tarball

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> felix winkelmann <address@hidden> writes:

 >> Is cross-compiling supported by the bootstrap thing?  I mean, when
 >> using PLATFORM=cross-linux-mingw the target platform for the
 >> bootstrap compiler should be Linux, and the binaries generated by
 >> the bootstrap compiler should be for Windows, right?

 > You caught the problem right away. This is indeed where the
 > bootstrapping doesn't work. Possibly with some crude makefile hacks
 > one could force ARCH to be the host-system's when doing the
 > bootstrap, with using any ARCH passed on the command line for the
 > second build. Unfortunately my head starts spinning when I look at
 > makefiles for too long...

        That's the reason why ./configure has both --build= and --host=.
        (And --target=, for selected packages.)

        Perhaps, this technique should be adopted for Chicken as well.