On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Steven, > > * Steven Woody wrote on Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 05:10:06PM CEST: >> >> For some reasons I need to cross-compile a tar-1.13, the target is ARM >> and the build host is i686-pc-linux-gnu. The tar-1.13's source come >> with a configure, that seems generated from a very old version of >> automake. For recent automake version, I have success experience to >> do cross-compiling, that is, specify a '--host=arm-linux' when running >> the 'configure' script. But for the tar-1.13's configure script, I >> failed to do it. I tried the following method: >> >> 1, configure --host=arm-linux >> 2, configure --target=arm-linux >> 3, configure --host=arm-linux --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu >> >> but all failed: the 'configure' script did not try to find >> arm-linux-gcc, it still using gcc as compiler. So I think, I did not >> active the cross-compiling in the script. > > You did not mention which Autoconf version this tar's configure script > was created with. It should be mentioned near the head of the script > somewhere. > > Please try > ./configure arm-linux > > which was IIRC the way to do it with Autoconf 2.13. >
Yes, it is 2.13 automake, I found the information in the comments of 'configure' script itself. But what you told './configure arm-linux' did not work neither ( it still use gcc instead of arm-linux-gcc). I attached the output for you information, please help if possible. Thanks in advance. - woody
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