[yocto] Cross building question

[Burton, Ross]

On 19 June 2013 15:03, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> What's the best way to handle this and how?  I recall in the
> dark old days that there were many such things that relied on
> running QEMU to actually execute target code.  Is this still
> possible (and being done)?  If so, is that a solution and how
> might I force it to happen?

You can use qemu, for example the fontconfig cache generation is done
at image construction time using qemu running the target binaries.
The alternative solution is to use the host compiler ($BUILD_CC etc)
and build the tool natively - either by patching the build system or
building it manually yourself before invoking make.

Of course, if this binary is just used to print some stuff for the
user, you could just patch it out. :)

Ross