RE: Ncurses for mips

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Vivek wrote:

> Soft-mult-div is one of the flags used my cross-compiler and is required. I
> don't know why the cross compiler flags are passed to host compiler gcc. I
> suppose all the source file should be compiled using my cross compiler.
>
> What may go wrong ?

You need to override the configure script using --with-build-cflags.
> From "INSTALL":

    --with-build-cc=XXX
        If cross-compiling, specify a host C compiler, which is needed to
        compile a few utilities which generate source modules for ncurses.
        If you do not give this option, the configure script checks if the
        $BUILD_CC variable is set, and otherwise defaults to gcc or cc.

    --with-build-cflags=XXX
        If cross-compiling, specify the host C compiler-flags.  You might need
        to do this if the target compiler has unusual flags which confuse the
        host compiler.

    --with-build-cppflags=XXX
        If cross-compiling, specify the host C preprocessor-flags.  You might
        need to do this if the target compiler has unusual flags which confuse
        the host compiler.

    --with-build-ldflags=XXX
        If cross-compiling, specify the host linker-flags.  You might need to
        do this if the target linker has unusual flags which confuse the host
        compiler.

    --with-build-libs=XXX
        If cross-compiling, the host libraries.  You might need to do this if
        the target environment requires unusual libraries.

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