Re: Cross-compiling Guile 2.0

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribas:

> After having read "Using System Type" again in the autoconf manual, I am
> convinced again that the right thing to do is to add a %target-type
> fluid or mutable parameter, defaulting to the %host-type.  We select how
> to compile for the target by making decisions based on %target-type.
> Since in Guile those decisions don't currently need to be made anywhere
> except in compile-bytecode.scm and in bytecode->objcode in objcodes.c,
> this is easy.  In the future when the %target-type could select an
> entirely different assembler et al, the "where" of the decisions could
> be moved somewhat; but I think that the mechanism sounds right to me.

Sounds good, but you’d need additional data that maps triplets (well,
$host_cpu) to low-level info such as endianness and word size, right?

Thanks,
Ludo’.