Re: cross compiling in general

[Rory Toma <rory@...>]

> On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:35:45 -0800
> Rory Toma<rory@ooma.com>  wrote:
>
>    
> > I notice that every package that I cross compile, I have to, at a
> > minimum, rewrite the configure scripts and often the Makefiles. What
> > is the standard lua way of building for cross-compile?
> >      
> /path/to/your/cross-compiler -Isrc etc/all.c -o lua
>
> Is one approach.
>
> B.
>    
It's not that, it's that all the support scripts seem to be standardized 
in a way which

1) wants to call the local lua on the build machine to get installation info
2) Makefiles often have things like CFLAGS and CC hardcoded
3) There is usually no support for things like $(DESTDIR)

Each set of files looks similar enough that they probably are based on 
the same original set, yet each is different enough that they have to be 
tweaked by hand.