Re: [Boost-users] packaging boost-1.37.0 for "LTIB"?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] packaging boost-1.37.0 for "LTIB"?
From: Robert P. J. Day (rpjday_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-03 23:43:06

On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Steven Watanabe wrote:

> AMDG
>
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   LTIB is a packaging system used to build cross-compiled root
> > filesystems (a la buildroot, sort of like that).  what makes LTIB a
> > bit different is that the entire build runs inside a "spoofed"
> > environment, where normal executable names like "gcc" and "ld" and so
> > on are aliased to their cross-compile counterparts.  in other words,
> > packages are built "normally", allegedly never realizing that their
> > invocations of the compiler tools are actually being redirected to
> > their cross-compiler equivalents.
> >
> >   most of the time, this works just fine, but it runs into problems if
> > part of the build *needs* to invoke the native tools, and i think
> > that's what's happening when you try to "make install" after the
> > build.
> >
>
> Can you build bjam for the host system first?

  this is, in fact, what i did -- "./configure", then stuck the
resulting bjam in my personal bin directory, and used that for the
subsequent cross-compile build.

rday
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