Re: building without fp

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav@gnutls.org writes:

I noticed that trying to build nettle in systems without floating point fails at the shadata, aesdata tools. The attached patch adds a flag (disable-data-targets) to prevent them from being built.

Which system are you building for, which lack even software floating point? Is it for native or cross compile? I wonder if it can be handled better automatically, instead of introducing yet another configure flag. Some possibilities:

1. Have a configure check for working floating point, and disable programs depending on floating point.

2. When cross compiling, don't cross compile those tools, but instead create binaries for the build machine.

Regards, /Niels