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		monocasa on Oct 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to not rewrite it in Rust Cross compiling to what? Autotools is probably the most portable piece of software out there as far as Unices are concerned.

bluGill on Oct 24, 2019 [–]

Embedded Linux on arm. Nothing very far out really. Note that I'm careful not to blame autotools, it is the user's fault, there are a couple projects that use autotools and cross compile easily. The vast majority do not.

CMake based projects almost always cross compile easily.

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