[Scummvm-devel] Ports and their custom build systems. Do we need them?

[Johannes Schickel]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM, yotam barnoy <yotambarnoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know that from my perspective, the PSP's makefile is easier to use than
> configure. For example, I build using MSYS on windows, and my psp-gcc can't
> pass the compiler test that configure runs. I have to hack configure to make
> it work.
>
> Another example is that having just added dynamic plugins, configure needs
> several options when building, specifically '--enable-plugins
> --default-dynamic --disable-debug' (disable debug is to prevent bloat). I
> could make this the default, but then --enable-plugins would have no
> meaning, and would need to be 'disable' instead.
>

Usually for cross-compiling configure doesn't run any compiler tests.
>From how I understand the configure script code, all you need to do is
pass "--host=psp" to get it to build just fine.

// Johannes