iOS cross compiling support

[James Gregurich]

That would certainly work for MacOSX. What if the host isn't an apple OS? There is certainly support for freebsd in darwin ports. I would assume it is meant to be generic. 

for the record, the precise definition of my terms are....

host = system with dev tools that builds the product
target = system upon which the product executes.


BTW. this discussion can be moved to the developer list if that is desired.

-James

On Jan 28, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Jan 28, 2011, at 13:24, James Gregurich wrote:
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>> Is it consistent with the design of macports for me to invoke its included config.guess script to get the triplet for the host? If so, what would be the proper means of invoking it. in the tcl scripts?
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> I would assume that the config.guess file is exclusively for the MacPorts configure script to use when MacPorts is building itself.
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> If you're trying to generate a string like "i386-apple-darwin10" you could use "${os.arch}-apple-${os.platform}${os.major}"
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