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

[Martin Ertsås]

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.
> 
> Note that this series addresses the comments done on the first post [3-6].
> 
> BTW, it's not something I want to push blindly, because:
> - in the Buildroot project [1], we try to send patches to the upstream
> project as much as possible patches (as long as the patches are clean
> enough to get accepted);
> - once integrated in Buildroot [1], automatic jobs [7] will run
> build-tests, so if further fixes are needed, we will do them; so we
> won't let this cross-compilation support unmaintained.
>

Also, this is something we want here as well, as we are currently cross compiling nginx.

- Martin

> 
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://buildroot.net/
> >>> [2] https://github.com/tSed/buildroot/blob/nginx-integration/package/nginx/nginx-0005-auto-unix-make-sys_nerr-guessing-cross-friendly.patch
> 
> [3] http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2014-May/005292.html
> [4] http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2014-May/005290.html
> [5] http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2014-May/005291.html
> [6] http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2014-May/005293.html
> [7] http://autobuild.buildroot.org/
> 
> Yours,
> 
> -- 
> Samuel
> 
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