Cross-compiling with 4.1 ?

[David Disseldorp]

Hi Jeremy,

On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:41:28 -0700
Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> In our haste to remove the autoconf build (for
> which I'm as guilty as anyone else) we may
> have lost something important - that's the
> ability to cross-compile 4.1.0 and above.
> 
> Has anyone done this with master/4.1.0 ?
> 
> Does it work ? I know there are several
> OEMs who absolutely depend on this to
> create working file server builds.

Tridge added wafsamba cross compilation support in 2010 via the
--cross-execute and --cross-answers options. Both are documented at:
	http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Waf#cross-compiling

I've not tested Waf cross compilation personally, but as the saying
goes... ;-)

Cheers, David