Problem description: Binutils cannot be cross compiled because the bfd/doc dir has a program called 'chew' which does something with the documentation files on the HOST machine. It fails because the compilation of this program gets the CFLAGS of the TARGET platform. The attached patch removes this assignment from the configure script. It is tested with an epatch in the ebuild, and compiles cleanly. The variable involved: CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD gets assigned with CFLAGS. Which isn't going to work between different platforms.
Created attachment 104714 [details, diff] cflags_for_build.patch # Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-devel/binutils/binutils-2.17.ebuild,v 1.17 2006/12/18 20:01:56 tgall Exp $ PATCHVER="1.1" UCLIBC_PATCHVER="1.0" ELF2FLT_VER="" inherit toolchain-binutils # ARCH - packages to test before marking KEYWORDS="-* ~alpha ~amd64 arm ~hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 sh sparc ~sparc-fbsd ~x86 ~x86-fbsd" src_unpack() { tc-binutils_unpack cd "${WORKDIR}"/patch tc-binutils_apply_patches cd "${WORKDIR}"/binutils-2.17 epatch "${FILESDIR}"/cflags_for_build.patch }
so set CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD to the host values
