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Bug 953

Summary: What about using cross prefix for sdl-config?
Product: SDL Reporter: Miro Kropacek <miro.kropacek>
Component: buildAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED ABANDONED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   

Description Miro Kropacek 2010-02-16 02:54:20 UTC 
Currently, there's no clean way how to use both native sdl-config along with SDL for cross environment. For example, my libSDL is from distro package:

/usr/bin/sdl-config
/usr/lib/libSDL.so
:
:
etc. My cross tools are let's say in /usr/m68k-atari-mint so the sdl-config for m68k-atari-mint will go to /usr/m68k-atari-mint/bin if I give --prefix=/usr/m68k-atari-mint when ./configuring.

Now, what should poor developer do when he wants to cross-compile SDL applications?

1. He can leave system as it is and bad (native) sdl-config will be called (from /usr/bin)
2. He can add /usr/m68k-atari-mint/bin to his PATH but guess what? Compilation of native SDL application will fail (because they will run /usr/m68k-atari-mint/bin/sdl-config)
3. He can use some sort of hack, I prepend /usr/m68k-atari-mint/bin to PATH only for the ./configure when cross compiling but it's not very well either.

I propose simple change -- as the ./configure script of SDL library knows if it's cross compiling or not, in case of cross compilation just prepend this cross prefix to 'sdl-config' so the name will become '<cross_prefix>-sdl-config'. You can even make 'sdl-config' symlink for backward compatibility as option if needed.

Of course, this wont work automatically as with gcc/binutils case (where 99% of configure scripts knows it should look for cross prefixed binaries if --host and/or --target switch is specified) but there will be at least an option to cleanly write ./configure scripts for SDL application developers...
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2010-07-18 01:23:06 UTC 
I'll check this out in my Mac OS X cross-compiling environment.

Thanks!
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2018-08-06 21:20:21 UTC 
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