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Re: Cross Compiling the GDB 6.0 branch
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:33:09PM +0100, Chris.Pedley@arm.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I checked out the gdb_6_0-branch earlier today and am having some trouble
> cross compiling this for ARM Linux (its all building fine to use locally on
> my Intel box). Just to clarify - I'm trying to build a gdb to be run on an
> ARM Linux machine, debugging ARM applications but built on an Intel box
> (host=arm-linux, target=arm-linux, build=i686-linux).
>
> When configuring readline the following error is reported:
> checking for mbstate_t... configure: error: cannot run test program while
> cross compiling
>
> Unlike errors about cross compiling when configuring readline whilst
> building gdb 5.3, this error does stop the build. I've tried hunting
> around for a --disable-testing / --without-test configuration option but
> can't find anything obvious.
>
> Any ideas?
I think I mentioned this in response to an earlier message? You need
to simply pre-seed that test: export bash_cv_have_mbstate_t=yes. This
is a bug in readline's configure script that I need to get around to
fixing.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer