[Clfs-support] Stuck cross-compiling Coredumper--ideas?

[Zeqadious]

William Tracy (wtracy) wrote:
>
> I’m not actually working with an LFS system, so I have no idea if 
> anybody on this list is willing to offer any help. I’m hoping someone 
> might offer some general troubleshooting tips; if not, sorry to waste 
> your time.
>
> I’m trying to cross-compile a library that uses GNU Autotools (Google 
> Coredumper, to be specific) for PPC using the MontaVista tool chain. 
> Normally, issuing “make” causes a .libs/ directory to be generating 
> containing .a, .o, and .so files (and variants thereof). When I 
> cross-compile for PPC, the directory is created and populated with a 
> .a file, but no .so files. I can see .o and .lo files being generated, 
> so the code **is** getting compiled, but the linking stage gets 
> skipped. When I review the make output, there are no error messages or 
> warnings—the commands related to the .so files are simply missing.
>
> **Summary**: When I try to cross-compile, make mysteriously and 
> silently skips one or more parts of the build. (If I build for the 
> same architecture, it works fine.)
>
> I’ve tried diff-ing the Makefiles generated by ./configure for the 
> different architectures, and they look the same (other than the paths 
> to the compiler executables being different). I’ve also tried grepping 
> the Makefiles for the relevant commands that I see in the output; I 
> get no matches in either Makefile, so Autotools is doing *something* 
> arcane here.
>
> At this point, what else can I try doing to debug this?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
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>
> *William Tracy*
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Perhaps --enable-shared="yes" --enable-static="no" passed through 
./configure , ./autogen.sh ?

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