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

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 12:03:28 -0700 ".alyn.post." <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

That's a very interesting project, Alan.  Thanks for the link.  It could
be used by salmonella to test Chicken & eggs on several platforms.


Best wishes.
Mario
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