Am 26.12.2010 18:32, schrieb Mr Dash Four: > Due to the fact that I have spent the last two and a half hours trying > to find a place where to submit a bug report via the Trac system > (https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn) - and failing, miserably so - I > am submitting it here! > > In this version of OpenVPN, the Makefiles for the above plugins contain > hard-coded compile/link parameters, which prevent cross compilation. > > For example, during building openvpn-down-root.so the value of the c/c++ > compiler is assumed to be gcc, along with various other settings (CLFAGS > being set as "-O2 and -Wall" and LDFLAGS as "-shared -Wl,-soname"), > disregarding the rest, therefore ruining any possibility of cross > compilation as the file produced will have the same attributes as the > build system! > > If I build OpenVPN on x86_64-based machine to be executed on i686 the > two Makefiles will produce code for x86_64, despite the openvpn > executable being produced, correctly, for the i686 host system. Thus, > the produced 'package' will introduce at least 2 additional - and highly > undesired - dependencies, namely: glibc (x86_64) and libpam (x86_64). > > To prevent that I am enclosing a patch, which although fixes this > problem I am of the opinion that it could be optimised further to > co-exist with the rest of the build system and be auto-generated, though > I will leave that with the developers to decide what is the best way to > proceed and fix this bug.
I think it would be good to integrate this with automake if the whole setup is to be integrated and these plugins are supposed to be built more or less officially. I can take a stab at it if desired, drop me a note with a Cc: to my personal address. If desired, I can also look at libtool although I have no relevant experience with that yet, but I do have substantial experience with autoconf/automake. Best Matthias
