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Re: Automake problem buildng "joe" in uClibc buildroot
- From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at src dot lip6 dot fr>
- To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming at backtobasicsmgmt dot com>
- Cc: uclibc at uclibc dot org, automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 14:59:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: Automake problem buildng "joe" in uClibc buildroot
- References: <409311C3.7000403@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
>>> "Kevin" == Kevin P Fleming <kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com> writes:
Kevin> I'm trying to build the JOE editor (version 2.9.8) in a uClibc
Kevin> buildroot. My buildroot has successfully built all the other stuff I
Kevin> need, including some stuff I've added (device-mapper, LVM2, xfsprogs,
Kevin> etc), that use GNU autotools for their build systems.
Kevin> This packages uses a normal autotools build system; the configure
Kevin> script and Makefile don't look to be out of the ordinary at
Kevin> all. However, when it installs, automake is (for some reason)
Kevin> prefixing the binary names with "i386-linux", which I presume is
Kevin> happening because it thinks this is a cross-compile (which it is) and
Kevin> the binary being created is for the host (which it is not).
Maybe you've used --target=i386-linux or something like this?
Anyway you can complain to Joe's maintainer(s). I can't see any
reason to use AC_CANONICAL_TARGET in its configure.ac, and
removing this macro should avoid any problem like yours.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz