[Python-Dev] cross-compiling patches

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 11:37:50 +0200
Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > the first cross-build fixes went in in April, please consider these fixes for
> > the then incomplete cros-build fixes. The build issues you did see last night,
> > were fixed for the OS X build, and I reverted the update for the compiler search
> > paths for the native build. So please lets keep this cross-build support for
> > 3.3. It's working, tested with a arm-linux-gnueabi build on x86_64-linux-gnu.
> 
> FWIW, I agree that build fixes for platforms we already support are not a new
> feature.  I am not happy about the amount of changes, and I hope that no such
> big changes will come until final now...

I don't think we have ever supported cross-compiling officially (which
is different from supporting a given platform, e.g. ARM). But fair
enough.

Regards

Antoine.