Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Wine cross-compilation detection - wxwidgets

[Tony Theodore]

On 26 May 2010 10:52, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> Tony Theodore <address@hidden> schrieb:
>> Out of curiosity, since I'm seeing this more often, I tried:
>>
>> $ grep 'checking whether we are cross compiling... no' log/* | uniq
>>
>> and came up with over 80 packages (below). Of course, some of those
>> are native stages of builds, but I was surprised by the number.
>
> The cross-compiling detection is only important for more involved
> builds, i.e. if there are code generators to be compiled and used,
> or if there are checks which would try to run a cross-compiled
> program when in non-cross mode.
>
> That's why it doesn't really matter for the majority of packages.
>
>> Is this likely to be an issue, or would we have already noticed it?
>
> You can't overlook such issues, so I don't think this a problem.
>
> However, feel free to provide a patch that adds our Wine hack
> to all packages which are affected - but only to their cross
> builds, not their native builds!

I was thinking more of trying to de-register the .exe handling at
runtime, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this. As you say,
we'll notice it as it appears.

Thanks,

Tony