Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/13] gnu: chez-scheme: Bootfiles should not be native inputs.

From: "Philip McGrath" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:45:14 -0400

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, at 7:47 AM, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, dem 11.08.2022 um 07:08 -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath:
>> This makes a difference for cross-compilation.
> The title should be something like "Make bootfiles regular inputs".

To me, it would not be clear what makes an input "regular". Or perhaps the unclear part is what makes an input *not* "regular".

>  If
> you want to claim that this makes a difference, please offer an
> explanation.  You do not need to restrict yourself to a line here.
>

I'm not sure what's unclear here. If you are on x86_64 and trying to cross-compile for riscv64, you need to have generated riscv64 machine code, not x86_64.

-Philip