Re: linux/sparc and cross_compile

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 03:34:46PM +0800, belleshi wrote:
> dear friend:
>     i am very happy you can receieve my email! and i want to consult you something.
> 
>     i knew that you are the one to take charge the porting of linux/sparc. now i want 
> 
> to transplant the openoffice on linux/sparc, i don't know if it is possible? and now 
> 
> i want to embed the openoffice on a mobilephone, so i need to cross_compile. but when 
> 
> i use the ./configure --help in the dir of config_office, i saw these words:
> 
> if test "$build" != "$host" -o "$build" != "$target" \
> -o "$host" != "$target"; then
> AC_MSG_WARN([cross-compiling by any means is not supported (yet)!])
> echo "cross-compiling by any means is not supported (yet)!" >> warn
> fi
> 
>      there is ""cross-compiling by any means is not supported"", is it mesns that the 
> 
> openoffice can't do cross_compile at all? or it needs extra things to do the 
> 
> cross_compile? can you give me a guide?
>    
>      hope you can spare some time to answer my questions. thank you very very much!
> 
> and hope you everything goes well!
>  
>      friend from china
>   
>      shili

shili,

this is a very interesting question so I have cc the porting mail list.
Please subscribe to that list to see any replies and continue the
discussion.

I believe that there are several binary tools that are built and then used
during the building process. such as idlc, regcomp, transex ...

This means the build can only be run on the target platform. There may be a
solution if you can emulate the target platform on a different system?

Else someone needs to convert the various binary tools to run in a cross
platform environment.

thanks

jim
[email protected]