[vlc-devel] [PATCH] lua: build luac for the build, not the host

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:44:33 -0500, Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org>
wrote:
>> And I think contrib is not meant to, has no support for, and should
>> not target the build platform in any way.
> 
> That's not correct,

Yes it is. I designed the current contrib system. I think I know that
design limitation. It might or might not be possible to extend it to
support build-tools in a clean fashion. But it has not been done (and this
patch does not fix that).

> contribs build:
> * autopoint/gettextize shell scripts to be run on the build platform

Not true.

> * moc/uic/rcc executables for both target and build platform

Not by me and it most probably has bugs there.

> * luac

Only for host -not build- and not actually used.

> This lua patch you wrote ensures we only load a specific .luac format.
> Then we need a luac executable that compiles to that specific format.

And we also need autoconf, automake, awk, binutils, bzip2, gcc, gzip, g++,
libtool, make, perl, pkg-config, python, sed, tar, xcb-proto, xz and a
shell. So what?

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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