Re: Ncurses for mips

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Vivek wrote:

> ./configure --prefix=/home/dvivek/test/ncurses --target=mips-linux
>
> The output of ncurses configure script is given below.
>
> Configuring NCURSES 5.4 ABI 5 (Tue Feb  1 16:31:56 PST 2005)
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... mips-unknown-linux-gnu
> Configuring for linux-gnu
> checking for prefix... /home/dvivek/test/ncurses
> checking for gcc... mips-linux-gcc
> checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
> cannot create executables
>
> As you see the ncurses configure is not identifying the target system type
> correctly and reports error while checking compiler default output.
>
> Any idea what may go wrong ?

The config.log file should show more detail.  I have a much simpler
script for testing djgpp cross-compile, and see I'm using --target
there.  You'll run into trouble by not specifying ---with-build-cc,
but I don't think it's a problem at this point in the script.

For reference, this is what I'm using (but bear in mind that the
directory layout of the cross-compiler is important):

#!/bin/sh
# $Id: cfg-djgpp,v 1.3 2004/01/20 23:32:19 tom Exp $
# configure to cross-compile ncurses for djgcc
#
# TODO: can I make it build with gnat?
TARGET=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp
TOOLS=/usr/local/compiler/cross/djgpp

# I should put $TOOLS/bin in the path (as does "with-djgpp"), but that's
# clutter.

# autoconf 2.5x AC_CHECK_TOOL looks for the "$TARGET-" prefix.
# autconf 2.13 does not.
export AR=$TOOLS/bin/$TARGET-ar
export RANLIB=$TOOLS/bin/$TARGET-ranlib
export LD=$TOOLS/bin/$TARGET-ld

# autoconf would not guess this:
export CC=djgcc
export CXX=djgpp

cfg-normal \
        --with-build-cc=gcc \
        --host=$TARGET \
        --target=$TARGET \
        $*

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