Re: Cross compiling coreutils and manpages

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 11/09/2014 09:46 PM, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> On 07.11.2014 16:29, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> 
>> Is this only failing for chroot.1, or for others, too?
>> I assume your cross build target platform does not support
>> chroot(2), and therefore the chroot executable is not built.
>>
> 
> No, not only chroot. make -k shows that it fails on almost everything.
> (My target is linux on x86_64, for which I'm pretty sure chroot is 
> supported :-)

This reminds me about an issue we had with parallel builds (make -jNUM)
in coreutils-8.23. This was the fix:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=f51c44bd1e

However, building without -jNUM or with -j1, i.e., without parallel
building, did not have this dependency problem.

Does it work with yet another "make -j1"?

If not, what does the following command output?
  $ src='/home/solskogen/obj/work/coreutils-8.23.ventrix/src'
  $ perl -- ./man/help2man  --include="$src/man/yes.x "$src/yes"

... ouch, STOP!
You said you're cross-compiling - and that the target architecture
is x86_64. Is such a binary executable on the build host?

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny