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Re: Bug#859177: meson is unuseable for package cross compilation



Am 29.07.2017 um 09:12 schrieb Michael Biebl:

> My gut feeling is, that this functionality should be shipped in
> debhelper directly, specifically in the meson build system class [1].
> debhelper is written in perl, and I don't think we want to add a
> dependency on Python. But the  debcrossgen.py code looks straightforward
> enough to be ported to perl.

While generating a (temporary) cross.txt file is not a huge deal, being
able to directly pass the necessary options to meson via command line
options would be a tad nicer.

Jussi, would this be hard to implement? Is there a good reason why
cross-compilation uses a separate file?


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