Re: A configure error for samba3 on ppc

Hi, JohnsonCheng!

you wrote:

Yes. But how can I pass the testing?

Running it on the target - where it is actually supposed to work.

For cross-compile environment, the HOST and the TARGET are almost not the
same, so many utility can configure for cross-compile with host setting
except samba.

Well, you can tell configure to skip the tests silently if HOST!=TARGET
or give the message you got. But I wouldn't expect configure to guess
how it can get the code from the host to the target.
Yes, it's indeed a bad virus ;-)

It seems not sense.

I'd like to see the message.
For me I prefer to compile things native - if somehow possible.

Greets,

Clemens Koller
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-----Original Message-----
From: Clemens Koller [mailto:clemens.koller@anagramm.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 6:24 PM
To: JohnsonCheng
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: A configure error for samba3 on ppc

Hi, JohnsonCheng!

you wrote:

quoted

When I configure samba3.0.10 on ppc as following command:

CC=powerpc-linux-gcc AR=powerpc-linux-ar RANLIB=powerpc-linux-ranlib
./configure -host=powerpc-linux

I got a configure error message as following:
Configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
See 'config.log' for more details

I think this is a samba configure bug, do anybody know how to pass it?

No, it's not a bug. It's exactly what the message trys to tell you.
Samba wants to do some tests. But as it's not a native build,
it doesn't want to execute itself for the tests. Because
samba might not run on a different platform as it was built for.

If you want to do the tests, you need to let to do it on the
target where it was built for and not where it was built on.

Samba works fine over here on ppc embedded systems.

Greets,

Clemens Koller