building dbus and its configure options

[Ross Burton]

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 15:25 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> This is not really a dbus-specific topic. (Though judging by how often
> people ask how to use autotools for cross-compilation on this list,
> dbus is the first or only package people try to cross-compile that
> uses autoconf)

The same questions pop up every few weeks on xorg-list too, so it's more
showing that people who cross-compile by hand (instead of using a distro
which does it for them) only cross-build the low layers of the stack.
Whether this is because they are building tiny systems which just need
DBus and X, or whether they eventually realise that doing all this by
hand is just madness, I don't know.

Poky/OpenEmbedded cross-compiles everything, and OE contains several
thousand packages including the entire GNOME stack.  For standard
autotool'd packages, cross-compiling just works out of the box if you do
it properly.

Ross
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