On Saturday 09 July 2005 11:28, Jason Stubbs wrote: > I didn't read this in the thread. How does this work? ncurses needs to run a given binary (that I don't remember now, sorry), during the compilation stage. The build system try to build it bug if $CC != $BUILD_CC (literally) it considers it cross-compiling and doesn't try to run it (thinking that's a binary for another platform). In this case it *needs* the same binary already installed in the system.
That means that when you're crosscompiling ncurses it requires a local copy of ncurses installed. To install the local copy, it doesn't need another local copy. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)
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