Ticket #2348 (new defect)

Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

"file" command detection at buildtime breaks crosscompile + isolated builds

Reported by: metux Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: Future Releases
Component: cross-compilation Version: master
Keywords: Cc: gotar@…, info@…
Blocked By: Blocking:
Branch state: no branch Votes for changeset:

Description

See configure.in:383

It tries to detect how to run the file command.
On builds for systems other than the running one, this has great
chance of going wrong:

Building system can never be assumed to be the target one.
There is no way to detect that at buildtime whatsoever
(only having the user to explicitly specifying it), so that
should happen at runtime (if really necessary at all).

Change History

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by gotar

  • Cc gotar@… added

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by andrew_b

  • Branch state set to no branch
  • Milestone changed from 4.7 to Future Releases

comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by andrew_b

  • Component changed from mc-core to cross-compilation

comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by andrew_b

  • Cc metux removed

comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by metux

  • Cc info@… added
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