[PATCH 0 of 4 v3] Build-system: Cross-compilation support improvement

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Tue Sep 30 15:34:43 UTC 2014


Hello!

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:55:37PM +0200, Samuel Martin wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is this a "444 No Response" answer?
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ping?
> >>
> >> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Here is the 3rd round of this short series improving nginx build-system
> >>> support for cross-compilation.
> >>>
> >>> This series fixes a couple of issues found in the previous submission.
> >>> It still tries to be as less intrusive as possible, and intends to make
> >>> easier integration in cross-compilataion frameworks such as Buildroot [1].
> >>>
> >>> These patches include most of the changes needed for porperly supporting
> >>> the cross-compilation, except the sys_nerr guessing part [2], which cannot
> >>> merged in nginx because it is too unix-oriented and based on fragile
> >>> assumptions
> 
> So, really, the nginx community is not interested in improving the
> cross-compilation support?
> If so, just take some time to answer but don't leave people in the dark, please.

As previously said[1], while cross-compilation is something good 
to have, we don't consider it to be a "must-have" feature.  
Unfortunately, I currently have no time to work on this even as a 
reviewer, and the patches provided doesn't look good enough for me 
as is.

[1] http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2014-May/005318.html

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