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Re: Cross-build issues in gdb/gnulib


From: Pedro Alves
Subject: Re: Cross-build issues in gdb/gnulib
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:39:56 +0100
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Adding gnulib@

Original thread here:
 https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2015-08/msg00037.html

Thanks,
Pedro Alves

On 08/25/2015 02:12 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 25, 2015, at 5:56 AM, Pedro Alves <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 08/24/2015 10:20 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>>> I'm running into strange problems cross-building with V7.7.1; it looks like 
>>> the same configure machinery is present in later versions as well.
>>>
>>> The problem is that the configure script in gdb/gnulib tries to run a 
>>> number of tests, by building and then executing "conftest".  It does so 
>>> unconditionally, there are no checks for whether this is a cross-build, 
>>> specifically build = x86_64-linux, host = target = netbsd.
>>
>> I have no idea why configure is trying to run the test in your case, but I 
>> just yesterday
>> updated master's gnulib copy to current upstream gnulib master.  Previously 
>> we had
>> a 2012 copy.  I don't see any AC_TRY_RUN in current master, for instance,
>> though I didn't check older versions.  In any case, try seeing if current 
>> master makes
>> a difference.
> 
> I tracked down the spot in the configure sources where the problem 
> originates.  There is no AC_TRY_RUN involved.  Instead, the issue is this bit 
> of code in gnulib/import/m4/locale-ja.m4:
> 
>           # Test for the AIX locale name.
>           if (LC_ALL=ja_JP LC_TIME= LC_CTYPE= ./conftest; exit) 2>/dev/null; 
> then
>             gt_cv_locale_ja=ja_JP
> 
> The comment refers to AIX, but it is in fact executed in the "*" case of a 
> case statement, i.e., for everything other than Windows.  The same code 
> pattern also appears in the two other locale-*.m4 files.
> 
> So it looks like that code needs some sort of guard checking for cross-build, 
> and some sort of default action if so.  I'm not particularly fluent in 
> configure unfortunately.
> 
> A quick look at the latest master shows that these files are unchanged by 
> yesterday's update (other than copyright year).
> 
>       paul
> 





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