* Vincent Lefevre wrote on Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:17:06PM CEST: > On 2008-09-04 08:24:57 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > GNU awk should be cross compilable, but also it has not, as far as I > > know, yet updated to autotools which need an awk to be present. Since > > this is bound to happen at some point, if cross compilation is not an > > option for some system, and neither is compiling an old gawk version > > first etc.), then we need to discuss the situation;[...]
> I don't know if it is possible to cross-compile. The main problem is > that the glibc is very old on the Zaurus (with Sharp's ROM): 2.2.2. Why is the old glibc specifically a problem for cross compilation? > But the best thing to do is probably to keep an old version of awk to > bootstrap, then recompile a newer version. FWIW, specifically for autotools, the oldest and broken-nest awk or [gmn]awk you have should still work fine. We explicitly try to ensure this, so that things work smoothly even with, say, Solaris /bin/awk. Failures to work are bugs we need to fix. Cheers, Ralf
