[PATCH 1 of 2] auto/type/sizeof: rework autotest to be cross-compilation friendly

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 02:13:00PM +0200, Samuel Martin wrote:

> Hi Maxim, all,
> 
> Overall, thanks a lot for your feedback.
> 
> I'm doing this in order to get nginx integrated in Buildroot [1], so
> it would be automatically tested by the Buildroot buildfarms [2].
> 
> I'd like to know if there is an interest from nginx team to get a
> proper cross-compilation support.
> - if yes, I'll do my best to help on it (Buildroot developers try to
> push upstream as much as possible the fixes they do);

While cross-compilation is something good to have, we don't 
consider it to be a "must-have" feature.  And if added, we would 
like it to be done a) with minimal intrusion, and b) properly.  I 
don't think that some-gcc-only non-portable changes are welcomed, 
especially if result requires manual editing.  (Cross-compilation 
was actually discussed several times here, and I think it should 
be done by adding some ability to supply pre-computed results for 
tests which require running.)

> - if no, do the config files touch by this series often change?

Not really.
In last 365 days, only 25 changesets touched auto/:

$ hg log --date -365 auto/ | grep 'changeset:' | wc -l
      25

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Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/