Cross-compiling with 4.1 ?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 20:26 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 03:22:13PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 19:08 -0300, Thiago Fernandes Crepaldi wrote:
> > > Hello Jeremy,
> > > 
> > > since 4.0.3, I've had to change my build environment for using chroot +
> > > qemu user emulation to compile it for arm. I had too many troubles trying
> > > to use cross compilers on 4.0.x, but I havent tried cross compile 4.1.x
> > > yet, though.
> > 
> > The code hasn't changed, essentially, for 4.1 compared with 4.0 in this
> > respect.
> 
> Yeah, but 4.0 still has the autoconf code, and 4.1 doesn't :-).
> That's the big change.

Sure, I wasn't trying to minimize the issue - the reverse, I was trying
to avoid the false hope that the build system fairies might have fixed
it for 4.1 :-)

> > The primary issue, as far as I'm aware, is that the python version on
> > both build and target absolutely have to match, because currently the
> > python configure tests are run directly in the python interpreter, not
> > via the --cross-answers stuff (which everything else uses, or at least
> > everything should use).
> > 
> > There may well be other issues:  I don't know of anybody doing a deep
> > investigation into this since the initial support was added.
> 
> I'm getting complaints it's not working, so I'll dig a little
> deeper.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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