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Building perl5.001m for multiple platforms (NEXTSTEP) simultaniously?
We are working with NEXTSTEP on a network with different platforms. NEXTSTEP uses so called 'fat' binaries, eg the compiler can crosscompile for several platforms and then combine the binaries into one file. With most packages of the net, just adding the necessary flags to 'CCFLAGS' and 'LDFLAGS' does the trick.

For perl, this does not work (cc -E does not work with those flags, and how do you answer the question about the byte order???).

So in order to get it to work properly, we have to configure and compile perl for all platforms, and then combine all binaries by hand. This takes 4E4+3 days. Any chance of some configure tweaking to make crosscompilation possible?


gerti