From: "Kevin Coffman" <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Cross compilation of nfs-utils-1.0.9.tar.gz for mips
	architecture.
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:37:08 -0500
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To: "Padmakiran K. S." <padmakiran@gmail.com>
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Padmakiran,
I think this patch:
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/nfs-utils-patches/1.0.10-3/nfs-utils-1.0.10-003-autotools_touchups.dif
fixes that problem.  It hasn't made it upstream yet...

Please let me know if it helps or not.

K.C.

On 11/20/06, Padmakiran K. S. <padmakiran@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to enable NFS support enabled for Monta Vista linux 2.6.10 for
> mips architecture. I was not able to cross-compile the nfs-utils package
> that was downloaded from sourceforge.net site.
>
> I tried setting (env variable) CC to my cross compiler i.e
> mips64_octeon_be-gcc and tried the configure script as mentioned below.
> --host option of configure script was set to the output of config.guess
> script.
>
> ./configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
> checking for g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC
> checking if g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
> checking if g77 static flag -static works... yes
> checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking whether the g77 linker
> (/auto/itasca/tools/packages/montavisa/mvl402/montavista/pro/devkit/mips64/octeon_be/mips64octeon-montavista-linux/bin/ld)
> supports shared libraries... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... (cached) i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar
> checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld...
> /auto/itasca/tools/packages/montavisa/mvl402/montavista/pro/devkit/mips64/octeon_be/mips64octeon-montavista-linux/bin/ld
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> checking for GNU libc2... yes
> checking for BSD signal semantics... configure: error: cannot run test
> program while cross compiling
>
>
> My build keeps failing for BSD signal semantics.  Is there any method of
> suppressing this check in the configure script.
> Any link or url elaborating the cross compilation for nfs-utils package
> would also be of great help.
>
> Is this the right method to cross compile nfs-utils package ? Currently i'm
> using the package nfs-utils-1.0.9.tar.gz .
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Padmakiran
>
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