[Scummvm-devel] Clarifying & cleaning configure's cross-compiling craziness

[Hubert Maier]

Hi Max,

> Some other things need to be addressed. E.g. some ports hardcode endian
> settings for no discernible reason -- specifically, gamecube,
> m68k-atari-mint, mips-sgi, ppc-amigaos, wii. My hope is that each of these

For the ppc-amigaos part you can get rid of

line 1521 LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -use-dynld -L/sdk/local/newlib/lib"
line 1971 _endian=big
line 1972 _need_memalign=yes

> can actually be removed -- but if some can't be, then the responsible
> porters really *must* report why the automated check fails; then we can

The automated check works fine and i can build a working exe without those lines
in place. No regressions

> either address this and fix it, *or* we hardcode the endianess, but then
> there *must* be a comment explaining the reasons. I will remove any
> hardcoded endianess assumptions which are not justified by a comment.

Ciao

Hubert
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