Re: Questions/Issues trying to cross-compile Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Jan-2012, Corbin Champion wrote:

| All,
| 
| I have figured out what --host is for and what value to set it to.  Now, I am
| stuck with errors like
| 
| checking whether fstatat (..., 0) works... configure: error: in `/home/corbin/
| applications/
| 
| octave-3.4.3':
| configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
| 
| I understand why that would be, since it cannot run the test code on the arm
| system and see whether it works.
| 
| So, what is the correct work-around?  I assume I need to tell it explicitly
| whether this works or not, but how?  I hope I can still use ./configure as
| opposed to doing it manually, since it looks like ./configure is doing quite a
| bit before this error. 
| 
| If I look at ./configure, this is just the tip of the iceberg and there are
| several issues when cross-compiling.  But, reading through old threads, I see
| people have succeeded.  So, maybe a more general question is, what is the
| correct approach to cross compiling octave?
| 
| Any help would be greatly appreciated!  Also, if this question is outside of
| the scope of this mailing list, please tell me where to send questions of this
| nature.

Let's move this discussion to the maintainers list.

jwe