On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:39:55AM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:

e2fsprogs looks like it resists cross-compiling also :(

So, the obstacles are:
 * e2fsprogs uses libc headers quite extensively, but there is no
glibc available for mips64 (right?).  It also seems to make quite a
few libc calls?  (How are you planning to deal with that?  Link
against it statically?  What about syscalls?)
 * e2fsprogs doesn't use autoconf/automake "properly".  It doesn't seem
to support cross-compiling.  Adding cross-compile support looks
somewhat non-trivial, since it builds it's own tools to compile itself.
(A fancy sed replacement, for some reason?)
 * there is no toolchain to build e2fsprogs on mips64 cleanly... need
to do that objcopy business.  This means hacking the build process?

You dont need e2fsprogs - Just certain parts of the libe2fs which itself
just uses some very basic libc functions like malloc/free/str* which
we all have within arcboot. So you simple need to cross-compile the
libe2fs.

Flo
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