On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 18:49 +0000, David Goodenough wrote: > Looking further at the debian/rules file there is a place to compile > the file, but it uses $CROSSCC, is this set for a non-cross compile? Check the contents of debian/rules after the patch is applied: DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM = $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM) DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU = $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU) DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) ifneq ($(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE), $(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)) CROSS=--build $(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --host $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) CROSSCC=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)-gcc else CROSS= CROSSCC=gcc endif So $(CROSS) is just a placeholder, $(CROSSCC) equals gcc in a native build or arm-linux-gnu-gcc in a crossbuild for ARM. This is done so that the patch can be incorporated upstream in Debian. See #465105 (The patch in the bug report IIRC sets --build in $(CROSS) in line with the autotools-dev recommendations but it's only a precaution.) (Use embug -u; embug -l to see the list of crossbuilding bugs). -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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