Re: crossgcc for mips-redhat-linux-gnu

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Chris Jones wrote:
> I have a working x86 -> mipsel cross compile environment running 
> thanks to Dan Kegel's crosstool script.
>
> I was wondering if anyone has experience trying to cross-compile Redhat
> src RPMs.
>
> I have been trying to do the following without much luck:
>
> rpmbuild --rebuild --target=mips-linux-gnu ./x.src.rpm
>
> It seems that the --target flag isn't used properly when ./configure is 
> called. Therefore we don't cross-compile.
>
> Am I missing something from my set-up or does --target parameter in 
> rpmbuild not actually do what I think it does?

I wouldn't be surprised if most packages needed a bit
of rework in their .spec files before the --target
flag worked.   You may want to fix one, send a patch
to the upstream maintainer, and see what they say...
- Dan

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