cross compiling or better suggestion...

[John Sanabria]

Hi,

I'm compiling octave for a different platforms. Minutes ago, I tried to 
compile octave in that particular machine
"Linux sunyata.thaigrid.or.th 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL_lustre.1.4.9smp #1 SMP Wed 
Feb 7 01:46:02 MST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

And I got this error:
--- short for brevity ---
/usr/bin/ld: 
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/../../../../lib64/libf77blas.a(sgbmv.o): 
relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when 
making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/../../../../lib64/libf77blas.a: 
could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libcruft.so] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/josanabr/src/octave-2.9.9/libcruft'
make[2]: *** [libraries] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/josanabr/src/octave-2.9.9/libcruft'
make[1]: *** [libcruft] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/josanabr/src/octave-2.9.9'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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Ok, I had compiled successfully octave in that platform
"Linux pragma001.grid.sinica.edu.tw 2.4.21-47.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Mon Jul 
24 15:33:59 CEST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux"

Then, I think that could be possible compile octave in pragma001 (i686) 
and copy the compilation output in sunyata(x86_64).

The problem is, that I never had made a cross platform compilation.

Are there some documentation in octave about it? I read the INSTALL and 
say it:

"   If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should
use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
produce code for."

What value assign to TYPE?

" If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a
platform different from the build platform, you should specify the
"host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will
eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'."

What value assign to TYPE?

Correct values, solve my problem? Thanks a lot,