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automake vs. GNU makeautomake vs. GNU makePosted Feb 7, 2008 17:17 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (guest, #421)In reply to: automake vs. GNU make by madscientist Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions That's totally untrue; automake+libtool supports cross-compiling just fine (note that you can hardly use automake for libraries without using libtool, so saying that automake supports cross-compiling but libtool doesn't is a little strange). I use libtool for cross-compiling all the time. (e.g. on one of my projects we cross-compile shared libraries for Windows from GNU/Linux using mingw).
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automake vs. GNU make Posted Feb 7, 2008 22:57 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] I don't know much about the cross compiling support of autotools. Do autotools support cross compiling for systems e.g. with 8 bit microcontrollers, which maybe don't have an operating system at all ? Alex
automake vs. GNU make Posted Feb 7, 2008 23:23 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] 8-bit, I'm not sure. Things like arm-elf (without an OS), sure, and has for next to forever.
automake vs. GNU make Posted Feb 11, 2008 1:43 UTC (Mon) by GreyWizard (guest, #1026) [Link]
Autotools support cross compilation in the abstract: to the extent that they work for one
cross compiling target they should work for any that the underlying compiler can support. As
for that, GCC does support at least some 8-bit microcontrollers, as attested here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg01809.html
automake vs. GNU make Posted Feb 11, 2008 8:37 UTC (Mon) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] What about compilers != gcc, e.g. sdcc ? Alex
automake vs. GNU make Posted Feb 11, 2008 20:01 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Other compilers are generally supported. autoconf supports anything which runs as $CC and supports -g, -o, and -c with the customary meanings; automake supports anything with the caveat that dependency analysis may be inaccurate without compiler support (said support being a few lines of shell script in the depcomp script: if you need it for your compiler, please submit a patch!) libtool's support is necessarily compiler-by-compiler and platform-by-platform, and so cannot cover everything (its entire purpose being to smooth out variation in the way different compilers and platforms create shared objects): nonetheless, on Linux, 1.5.26 supports GCC, KCC, Intel C++, the Portland Group's compiler, Compaq C++, and even Sun C, although who'd be using that on a Linux box I have no clue. (For a complete list of compiler * platform combinations, look in libtool.m4.) (libtool obviously doesn't support sdcc, since as far as I can tell sdcc can't generate PIC code at all :) )
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