On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:49, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm reasonably far with the xscale big endian (armv5teb) port. Most > things just work, it just takes a lot of time to compile-test things > as I only have one 600MHz processor to work with (and crosscompiling > is not an option because a lot of packages are simply broken with > respect to that, hardcoding CC=gcc, etc.) At a FOSDEM a couple of years ago I think that some Nokia people gave a talk on what they are doing in this regard. They apparently used binfmt_misc to recognise non-native binaries (I think it was ARM from memory) on an i386 class build machine. The "interpreter" for the binaries was a script that used ssh to login to an ARM server and launch them (the ARM server NFS mounted the file systems from the i386 machine at the same locations). This meant that all the autoconf tests which rely on compiling a test program and executing it worked. I expect that you could do the same. You can use an iPaQ for this, the USB networking is fast enough for the NFS operations needed for autoconf tests, and an Athlon or P4 CPU should do well for compiles. As for CC=gcc, that's easy to solve. Change $PATH so that /usr/local/arm-bin is the first entry. > CPPFLAGS=" -I/usr/X11R6/include -Dlinux -D__arm__ -D__arm32__ -U__arm -Uarm > -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE > -D_SVID_SOURCE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DXVENDORNAME=The X.Org > Foundation -DXVENDORNAMESHORT=X.Org " > > configure then fails with: > > checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C > compiler cannot create executables > > quite simply because "X.Org" and "Foundation" are not valid gcc options. > Ho hum. Well it looks like there are quotes missing from around 'The X.Org Foundation' but apart from that it shouldn't be a problem. -DX=y is a fine parameter for GCC. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
