Re: [gentoo-embedded] ./configure --prefix /opt --host=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi

[Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 13:36 +0100, Stephen Feyrer wrote:
> Well on the plus side it produced a full set of healthy little bouncing
> binaries.  Except that they were X86_64 binaries and not arm!
> 
> Which puts me back at square one.
> 
> 
> 
> Stephen Feyrer wrote:
> > Sorry Make went okay as well.  I just excepted it to stop with a nice
> > little message like meerge I guess.
> > 
> > Stephen Feyrer wrote:
> >> Sven Rebhan wrote:
> >>> Take a look at http://gentoo.mindzoo.de/index.cgi/wiki/cross-compiling
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> It seems that:
> >>
> >> ./configure --prefix=/opt --target=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi
> >> host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi
> >>
> >> will run the configure without any deviation, hesitation or throwing all
> >> of its toys out!
> >>
> >> The Configure --help has this to say on the subject of cross compiling.
> >>
> >> System types:
> >>   --build=BUILD  configure for building on BUILD [guessed]
> >>   --host=HOST    cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST [BUILD]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm now happily having make problems.
> >>
> >>
> >> I am very grateful to everyone for helping me.

It took a bit of head banging last nite, but I found I had to set all of
the following. It would still fail for me trying to link in some
-lrpcsvc which I did not figure out what provided it.
but should give you a start. You will want to double check these are
legit conf cache values for the platform you are dealing with also.

Good luck.

EXTRA_ECONF=--with-notify=none \
	i_cv_epoll_works=yes i_cv_posix_fallocate_works=no \
	ignore_signed_size=1 i_cv_signed_size_t=no \
	i_cv_gmtime_max_time_t=31 \
	i_cv_signed_time_t=yes \
	i_cv_mmap_plays_with_write=yes \
	i_cv_fd_passing=yes \
	lib_cv_va_copy=yes i_cv_c99_vsnprintf=yes \
	lib_cv___va_copy=no va_copy_func=va_copy \
        lib_cv_va_val_copy=yes \
	ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arm ~arm ~amd64" \
	${CHOST}-emerge -v1 dovecot --root-deps=rdeps "$@"