Cross-compiling bash 2.05a fails.

[Harald Nordgård-Hansen]

Configuration Information:
Machine: i386 and arm
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc

Bash Version: 2.05a
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release

Description:
        When crosscompiling bash (in this case compiling on x86-linux
        with arm-linux as target), the file version.o is used both by
        bash itself as well as the bashversion utility used as part of
        the build process.  The way Makefile.in has been set up,
        version.c is cross-compiled to version.o, and this file is
        then attempted linked together with build-host object code to
        create bashversion.

Repeat-By:
        ./configure --build=i386-linux --host=arm-linux; make
        Cross-compiler (arm-linux-gcc) needs to be available... :)

Fix:
        The easy way seems to just make sure that bashversion compiles
        version.c from source, instead of using the version.o created
        to be part of bash.  While inelegant, it works.  To achieve
        this, Makefile.in needs a patch like this one:
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--- bash-2.05a/Makefile.in.orig Tue Jan 15 14:54:57 2002
+++ bash-2.05a/Makefile.in      Tue Jan 15 14:55:15 2002
@@ -486,8 +486,8 @@
        $(SHELL) $(SUPPORT_SRC)mkversion.sh -b -S ${topdir} -s $(RELSTATUS) -d 
$(Version) -o newversion.h \
                && mv newversion.h version.h
 
-bashversion$(EXEEXT):  patchlevel.h conftypes.h version.h version.o 
$(SUPPORT_SRC)bashversion.c
-       $(CC_FOR_BUILD) $(CCFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ 
$(SUPPORT_SRC)bashversion.c version.o
+bashversion$(EXEEXT):  patchlevel.h conftypes.h version.h version.c 
$(SUPPORT_SRC)bashversion.c
+       $(CC_FOR_BUILD) $(CCFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ 
$(SUPPORT_SRC)bashversion.c version.c
 
 # old rules
 GRAM_H = parser-built
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