Bug 131646 – ntp won't cross compile

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Otis P. Codswallow 2006-04-29 02:07:35 UTC]

ntp doesn't cross compile because while building ntpdc it tries to run ntpdc-layout, which it created with the cross-compiler.

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System uname: 2.6.14-hardened-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

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Making the following change to ntpdc/Makefile allows the compile to continue, though I suspect it would be just as valid to comment out the check entirely as to perform it on the build machine compiler.  Not sure how to work this into Makefile.am

--- Makefile.orig       2006-04-29 01:30:40.186549998 -0700
+++ Makefile    2006-04-29 01:33:48.662026710 -0700
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@

 maybe-layout:
        @case "${PATH_PERL}" in \
-           /*) ${MAKE} check-layout ;; \
+           /*) ${MAKE} CC=${build}-gcc check-layout ;; \
        esac

 ntpdc-layout.o: nl.c

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2006-04-29 13:05:45 UTC]

this was fixed a while ago upstream, i just never backported the patch as i didnt anyone would care

[Comment 2 Otis P. Codswallow 2006-04-29 21:24:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
Where upstream?  Is this just a matter of using a different keyword?  Are there going to be a lot of these cross compile issues?

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2006-05-03 16:57:00 UTC]

> Where upstream?

https://ntp.isc.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=390

i could always just steal the patch from buildroot:
http://uclibc.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/trunk/buildroot/package/ntp/ntp-cross-compile.patch

> Are there going to be a lot of these cross compile issues?

of course ... that's the fun with cross-compiling

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2006-05-03 18:09:48 UTC]

try 4.2.0.20060224 which is in portage now

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2006-07-15 21:45:10 UTC]

should be set