Cross-compiling SableVM on Gentoo (HOWTO and patches)

Hi,

I tested my new cross-compiler toolchains on SableVM. :)

I was able to successfully cross-compile it.  I didn't not try though
to cross-compile the gtk-related libraries though.

This is a mini-HOWTO on how to cross-compile it on a Gentoo system.
http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/crossdev/cross-compiling-sablevm.txt

See:
http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/ebuilds/dev-java/sablevm-svn/files/
for patches used.

I had to do these modifications:
1) Modify the ltmain.sh.  Bug in libtool?  Without the modification,
   if lib found in $(libdir), it will be used... leading to the
   attempt of using of the native lib instead of the cross-compiled...
   autogen.sh is modified to copy ltmain.sh so it can be patched.
2) configure.ac: AC_FUNC_MALLOC says no to GNU libc malloc if
   cross-compiling...  So, I work around by not doing the test if
   cross-compiling.


David

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David Bélanger
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