Hi Giulio, Steve, > > Note... Giulio's patch is doing something similar > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20200115160806.99991-1-giulio.benetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u > > Does something like that as well as setting the AM_XXX help the your cross-compile? > IMHO tools/* utility must be built with cross-compiler too, not with > /usr/bin/gcc. Buildroot provide host-nfs-utils for that, especially for > rpcgen. > Please take a look at my WIP patch for bumping nfs-utils to latest in > Buildroot: > https://github.com/giuliobenetti/buildroot/commit/12671eb21d62a5474dc476381015069382775668 > and please note this line: > --with-rpcgen=$(HOST_DIR)/bin/rpcgen > that means that nfs-utils must use already host-nfs-utils/rpcgen instead of > internal one to generate rpcs. This is why tools/* is not needed as host to > build target. Indeed host-nfs-utils is built when nfs-utils is built. At > least I understand this. > Can you Petr confirm that? > Because at this point the patch you're pointing is not needed. Sorry, I overlooked this mail. Ack, it's correct for buildroot, as I already wrote yesterday. But not sure if the patch isn't needed for Gentoo packaging. I guess if needed, it still can be rebased and applied later. Kind regards, Petr
