automake vs. GNU make [LWN.net]

automake vs. GNU make

Posted Feb 11, 2008 1:43 UTC (Mon) by GreyWizard (guest, #1026)
In reply to: automake vs. GNU make by aleXXX
Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions

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

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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 :) )