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On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:01:21 -0000
> "Jess Robinson" <castaway@desert-island.me.uk> wrote:
>
>>>> My branch now has a Configure which builds a miniperl (and
>>>> generate_uudmap) when cross compiling, and stores the path to them as
>>>> "hostperl" and "hostgenerate" in the config.sh. The Makefile.SH then
>>>> uses
>>>> them if set, instead of building, by symlinking.
>
> OK, I've now completed a targethost build on armel - it was a bit
> complex because I had to set up sshd_config to push the ssh login into
> a chroot to get the correct build dependencies. (I'll document that via
> my blog later.)
>
> The configure-for-cross branch fails:
> Checking how long a character is (in bits)...
> What is the length of a character (in bits)? [Ok]
> Your system has an unsigned character size of Ok bits, which
> is rather unusual (normally it is 8 bits). Perl likely will not work
> correctly on your system, with subtle bugs in various places.
> Do you really want to continue? [n]
Darn, yup, I just fixed that locally for doing it for raspberry pi, I'd
already done it in the androidy variant, but that doesn't use ssh ..
> What turns out to be happening here is that the tests are not copying
> the test executable each time and it appears to be down to the
> targetrun operation:
>
> if $test ! -f \$exe.xok; then
> $to \$exe
> $touch \$exe.xok
> fi
> $targetrun -l $targetuser $targethost "cd \$cwd && ./\$exe \$@"
>
> That test works once but then fails - I can't find where \$exe.ok would
> be removed. I'm not sure why it's necessary, the simpler:
I alsso couldn't see what the point was, and as it builds a number of test
programs with the same name.. it's a bit useless.
> $to \$exe
> $targetrun -l $targetuser $targethost "cd \$cwd && ./\$exe \$@"
>
> works for me.
Ditto.
> http://linux.codehelp.co.uk/emdebian/perl-cross-debian/upstream-imx53.log
>
> My additional arguments were:
> LINE=" ${LINE} -Dtargetuser=root -Dtargethost=192.168.0.20"
Great stuff, thanks!
Jess
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