Re: problem while crosscompiling ncurses with arc

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, varidh bhargava wrote:

>  we are passing BUILD_CC option as gcc. So the file make_hash and 
> make_key which are made with the help of gcc. These files contains 
> crt0.o (file which is needed for finding start symbol) which is by 
> default of host system, so when arc-gcc is trying to find the __start 
> symbol it is taking this crtn0.o of host gcc. So it might be giving this 
> error, as arc-gcc should use the crtn0.o, made during the cross 
> compilatiion od arc.

make_hash and make_key should be compiled and linked using the native
compiler - the compiler that builds executables that run on the machine
where you are compiling.

> Am i right or wrong. pls clear my doubts, if this is wrong what can be the 
> error and if this is right then what changes i
> need to make..
>
> Also i wana ask that is it necessary that for making make_hash and 
> make_key we need HOSTCC.

no - it was originally HOSTCC, but that name was confusing since the 
autoconf people decided that "HOST" means the target of the cross-compile,
rather than the host on which one is compiling.

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