Re: [Libffcall] repository moved from cvs to git

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Don,

> It's not clear to me what I'm supposed to do at this point.
> Do I have to build cross compilers if I just want to compile for the
> current platform?

If you just want to compile for the current platform, take a tarball -
for example the one here:
  http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/libffcall-20170211.tar.gz

> So far I've tried:
>  cd libffcall
>  git pull
>  cross-tools/cross-build.sh
>    says not enough options
>  cross-tools/cross-build.sh --help 
>  cross-tools/cross-build.sh all 
>    says Missing environment variable HOST_CROSS_DIR.

I thought people would read the comments at the top of
cross-tools/cross-build.sh...

> I notice in the output:
> 
>  You may need to add #include directives for the following .h files. 
>  
>  Don't forget to 
>   - add "gllib/Makefile" to AC_CONFIG_FILES in ./configure.ac, 
>   - mention "gllib" in SUBDIRS in Makefile.am, 
>   - mention "-I glm4" in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am, 
>   - mention "glm4/gnulib-cache.m4" in EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am, 
>   - invoke gl_EARLY in ./configure.ac, right after AC_PROG_CC, 
>   - invoke gl_INIT in ./configure.ac. 
> 
> The fact that the script kept going suggests that it was expecting
> to take care of all of those things.

This output is for the maintainer, when he runs gnulib-tool. You can ignore
it since you didn't change anything related to the gnulib-tool invocation.

Bruno