Re: cross-compilation trouble

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 07:15:19PM +0700, Maksim A. Nikulin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I compiled ncurses-5.2 for the Motorola ColdFire processor but there was a
> number of problems.
...
> 
> Now let's enumerate the problems
> 
> System headers precede ncurses ones in ncurses/Makefile, etc. Thus
> term.h includes from system directories and conflicts with library
> headers.

That's because the values in $CPPFLAGS precede local settings.  Sounds
awkward, but reversing the order would be worse in general.
 
> Another problem occurs with the menu library.
> 
> /tmp/ccMZcGoN.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccMZcGoN.s:124: Error: invalid index size for ColdFire -- statement
> `move.b %d2,(%a0,%a1.w)' ignored
> make[1]: *** [../objects/m_driver.o] Error 1
> 
> It disappears when I alter type of MENU.pindex in menu/menu.h from short
> to int.

sounds like a compiler problem (not ncurses).
 
> Also I try newer version, more exactly 2002/01/12 snapshot. There are
> wonderful options of the configure like --with-build-cc but I haven't
> found one for build cpp flags. 

That might be useful - thanks for the suggestion.

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