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Re: Questions/Issues trying to cross-compile Octave
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: Questions/Issues trying to cross-compile Octave |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:35:11 -0500 |
On 17-Jan-2012, Corbin Champion wrote:
| All,
|
| I have figured out what --host is for and what value to set it to. Now, I am
| stuck with errors like
|
| checking whether fstatat (..., 0) works... configure: error: in `/home/corbin/
| applications/
|
| octave-3.4.3':
| configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
|
| I understand why that would be, since it cannot run the test code on the arm
| system and see whether it works.
|
| So, what is the correct work-around? I assume I need to tell it explicitly
| whether this works or not, but how? I hope I can still use ./configure as
| opposed to doing it manually, since it looks like ./configure is doing quite a
| bit before this error.
|
| If I look at ./configure, this is just the tip of the iceberg and there are
| several issues when cross-compiling. But, reading through old threads, I see
| people have succeeded. So, maybe a more general question is, what is the
| correct approach to cross compiling octave?
|
| Any help would be greatly appreciated! Also, if this question is outside of
| the scope of this mailing list, please tell me where to send questions of this
| nature.
Let's move this discussion to the maintainers list.
jwe