[Freemint-list] Cross Compiling Freemint

[Thorsten Otto]

On Wednesday 26 October 2016 08:27:23 Markus Fröschle wrote:
> The MiNT build system is a little idiosyncratic, at best, and could well
> deserve a massive overhaul, IMHO. I have been searching for the "magic
> keyword" as well for a while that e.g. would make "make installdir" (or
> similar) work, but it's just not there.
> 

The problem with this it that this system is not only used by MiNT, but by all 
projects hosted there (mintlib, gemlib, cflib, toswin2 etc). Changing it would 
force all people involved in any of these projects to learn how to use it, and 
either have to take care which system is currently used, or forcing you to 
convert all those projects. And since there are good chances that this might 
break one or the other system in the first attempt, i don't think that this is 
worth the effort. If you need a quick solution, it might be better to just 
write a script that does the job and invoke that instead of changing hundreds 
of Makefiles:

find freemint.cvs -name Makefile | wc
    150     150    4826

... and that does not count the configuration files like SRCFILES, BINFILES, 
CONFIGVARS etc.