Cross-compiling with 4.1 ?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 03:30:45PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 20:26 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 03:22:13PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 19:08 -0300, Thiago Fernandes Crepaldi wrote:
> > > > Hello Jeremy,
> > > > 
> > > > since 4.0.3, I've had to change my build environment for using chroot +
> > > > qemu user emulation to compile it for arm. I had too many troubles trying
> > > > to use cross compilers on 4.0.x, but I havent tried cross compile 4.1.x
> > > > yet, though.
> > > 
> > > The code hasn't changed, essentially, for 4.1 compared with 4.0 in this
> > > respect.
> > 
> > Yeah, but 4.0 still has the autoconf code, and 4.1 doesn't :-).
> > That's the big change.
> 
> Sure, I wasn't trying to minimize the issue - the reverse, I was trying
> to avoid the false hope that the build system fairies might have fixed
> it for 4.1 :-)

Hahahaha ! I *love* that phrase :-). "the build system fairies..."

I'll have to use that in a talk sometime :-).