Re: [PATCH 3/3] SConstruct: Use 'target' option to decide whenewer to restart systemd

[Ladislav Michl]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 07:13:47PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> "Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Maybe gpsd needs an "I am cross-compiling" option?
> 
> I think this would be good, regardless of the details.
> 
> Cross compiling implies multiple things:
> 
>   anything to deal with the current system should be omitted.  Besides
>   whatever about systemd (that I don't use either) there is as I
>   understand it the notion on Linux that one should run 'ldconfig' after
>   installing a library.  But this is a host system thing.
> 
>   When checking for features, one can try to compile programs (with the
>   provided toolcahin, against the provided headers), but one cannot try
>   to run them.
> 
>   probably other things I'm forgetting
> 
> 
> and in general if we have a "are we cross compiling" variable and then
> switch things on it, when that makes sense, it seems like life will be
> simpler.

I know I'm stepping on thin ice, but... In autotools world, whenever --host
option different from --build is given, that means cross-compiling.
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.65/html_node/Specifying-Target-Triplets.html

Gpsd'd 'target' option seemed to serve this purpose to me.

So what about introducing internal variable first, so we can
make decision on a clear logic, and decide lated how to feed
this variable. Of course that could easily wait after release.

Best regards,
        ladis