Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] platform auto-detection mechanism

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On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 07:31:31PM +0100, Michele La Monaca wrote:
> > Cross-compilation is critical, at least to me, since I need it to use
> > Chicken at work.  Anyway, I think cross-compilation support is an
> > important feature for any project.
> 
> I would sincerly like to have a better understanding of your use case.
> But maybe we are already way too OT to continue this discussion in
> this thread. Let's discuss it privately or start another thread if you
> want to.
> 

I'd like to wander through with a ninja-comment:

Aboriginal Linux (http://landley.net/aboriginal/) is a project
designed to remove the need to cross-compile by providing a
Qemu-ready minimal linux build environment.  The project's tagline
is:

  "We cross compile so you don't have to."

The project *looks* like a Linux distribution, but it very much
isn't.  It's a build environment/toolkit for producing binary
releases for multiple platforms without having to cross-compile.

If this is interesting I'm happy to explore what it would take to
get this infrastructure set up for Chicken (Rob Landley is very
responsive and certainly accepted patches the last time the issue
came up.)  Depending on exactly what is being compiled, Mario, it
may be a lot of work or it could be a ~day of hacking the correct
"control image" to use the Aboriginal Linux parlance for a build
script.

-Alan
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