[Dovecot] cross compiling (arm)

Stephen Feyrer
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:09:25 -0000

Stephen Feyrer wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to cross compile dovecot.
>
> My desktop machine is an AMD64 box with bells and whistles.  The ARM
> based machine is a network attached storage box.  When I run
"make"
> always get x86_64 binaries.
> My OS is Gentoo, so I have been able to build using emerge a variety of
> other programs from source.  What am I doing wrong here.  (Gentoo
> doesn't have Dovecot for the arm)
>
> I run:
> ./configure --prefix=/opt --target=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi
> host=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> --cache-file=config.cache

This was due to a typo that I missed.

Ths host sections should have read --host=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi

I am sorry I did not spot this earlier.


--
Stephen.
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