On Jan 25, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Steve Dickson wrote: > > > On 01/25/2011 05:44 PM, Chuck Lever wrote: >> >> On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Patrick Dignan wrote: >> >>> On 01/25/2011 12:32 PM, Kevin Coffman wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Patrick Dignan<pdignan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> On 01/25/2011 04:58 AM, Steve Dickson wrote: >>>>>> On 01/24/2011 05:15 PM, Patrick Dignan wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm attempting to cross-compile nfs-utils 1.1.4 for ARM on an x86_64 >>>>>>> build machine. I can cross-compile other software, but nfs-utils fails. I >>>>>>> get the following error: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../support/include -D_GNU_SOURCE >>>>>>> -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -pipe -I/build/tegra2_seaboard/usr/include/ >>>>>>> -I/build/tegra2_seaboard/include/ -ggdb -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a8 >>>>>>> -mfpu=vfpv3-d16 -mfloat-abi=softfp -MT testlk-testlk.o -MD -MP -MF >>>>>>> .deps/testlk-testlk.Tpo -c -o testlk-testlk.o `test -f 'testlk.c' || echo >>>>>>> './'`testlk.c >>>>>>> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mfpu=vfpv3-d16" >>>>>>> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mfloat-abi=softfp" >>>>>>> testlk.c:1: error: bad value (armv7-a) for -march= switch >>>>>>> testlk.c:1: error: bad value (cortex-a8) for -mtune= switch >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm guessing there's some sort of problem in Makefile.am that's causing >>>>>>> it to fail, but I am not sure what changes I need to make. Does anyone know >>>>>>> the solution to this problem or where I might start looking to fix this? >>>>>> My guess would be your cross-compiler is added those to the CFLAGS because >>>>>> those flags are not set on a "normal" compilation... >>>>>> >>>>>> steved. >>>>>> >>>>>>> Best, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Patrick Dignan >>>>> I believe you are correct, however I think it should be using the ARM >>>>> specific compiler when trying to cross-compile. I don't know enough about >>>>> automake and cross-compiling to be sure, but I think that it doesn't set the >>>>> CC variable correctly. It does seem to configure correctly though, since it >>>>> shows the proper compiler being found: "checking for >>>>> armv7a-cros-linux-gnueabi-gcc... (cached) armv7a-cros-linux-gnueabi-gcc", >>>>> but then it uses the normal gcc. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for the help! >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> >>>>> Patrick Dignan >>>> This is just a guess, but I'm suspicious of these lines in >>>> tools/locktest/Makefile.am: >>>> >>>> CC=$(CC_FOR_BUILD) >>>> LIBTOOL = @LIBTOOL@ --tag=CC >>>> >>>> This might have been an oversite when the original conversion to >>>> automake was done. What happens if you comment those lines out (and >>>> then re-run autogen.sh)? Note that Makefile.am for rpcgen and >>>> rpcdebug also have these lines, but they may not need to be built when >>>> cross-compiling? >> >> When all is said and done, rpcgen needs to run on the build host, not on the target. >> I thought this was here for building on platforms that don't have rpcgen installed... >> (I think we should consider removing rpcgen from nfs-utils, in favor of requiring >> the officially installed rpcgen to be available). >> >> Does nfs-utils actually install rpcgen on the target? If it does, then ignore me. > Good question... > > It turns out that rpcgen will be built and installed if the --with-rpcgen=internal > configure flag is set which is not set in the Red Hat distros... > > This means, when nfs-utils is built on a Red Hat distros, the /usr/bin/rpcgen > command is used which is a part of the glibc-common package... > > So I guess the suggestion is to remove the rpcgen bits from nfs-utils > and use the ones from glibc-common which I am not against but this > really need to be a community wide decision... IMHO... Agreed. -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html