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Petric Frank wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> i've read the mail from Corey <corey@...> (dd. 2006-11-20 03:13:19 GMT). |
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> The problem is that the build process compiles a test program for the |
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> destination platform and afterwards it tries to execute it. |
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> This will never work when cross compiling. |
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> Are there any workarounds available (patches for the ebuild, etc.) ? |
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> regards |
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> Petric |
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There are a lot of packages like this that come this way from upstream |
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Options that have worked for me |
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1. modify the configure script and/or makefiles to not run the test program |
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2. In a few cases i complied gcc for my ARM platform, then compiled |
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natively.. I think perl was one of these.. It took hours to compile.. |
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Karl. |
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