[omniORB] Problem cross compiling for ppc-linux

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 15 July, "W. Borgert" wrote:
> Quoting Klaus Hoeppner <klaus.hoeppner at gmx.de>:
> > I try to cross compile OmniORB for a PowerPC board running linux on
> > a x86 linux machine.
> > 
> > I configure omniORB using ./configure --host=ppc-linux.
> > It finds the compilers provided by the embedded linux devel kit
> > (ppc-linux-gcc, ppc-linux-g++ ...).
> > Running make works fine untill the point
> 
> For cross-compiling omniORB 4.0.3 I did not use ./configure,
> but the old-style Makefile stuff instead.  (x86 or sparc as
> host, powerpc as target).  This works fine.  I'm not sure if
> ./configure is supposed to support cross-compiling omniORB4.

The configure based build is not meant to work for cross compiling. It
would be nice if it did, but right now it doesn't.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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