Re: Cross-compiling GNUstep?

[Fred Kiefer]

On 27.09.2011 20:09, David Chisnall wrote:
> HP has kindly sent me a TouchPad to play with, so I wanted to run
> GNUstep on it.   I've managed to get clang to use their cross-build
> toolchain, but I'm having problems with the configure script for
> -base.  It just aborts if you're cross compiling.
>
> Am I the first person to try cross-compiling GNUstep?  I was fairly
> sure Nikolaus had done this before.  Is there an easy way to tell the
> configure thing 'really, I know what I'm doing, just trust me...' and
> have it assume that the test programs will work?  I can always tweak
> configure options until they actually later...

Nikolaus Schaller isn't using GNUstep itself. He has his own fork mySTEP 
and to my knowledge he uses XCode to do the compilation for the 
different environments. As he only needs to support a few well 
controlled target systems, he gets along without all these compilcated 
configure scripts we are using.
I tried myself to cross compile GNUstep ages ago and failed. One problem 
was that gnustep-make was using the terms host/build/target in a 
different order than the cross compilation standard. No idea whether 
Nicola fixed that.
I agree with Richard that it is probably best to just generate the 
results of autoconf in a different way and use these then. I created 
them manually at that time. It would help to document what gets changed 
by the configure step.