Bug 92695 – glibc ebuild runs tests when doing a native cross compile

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Radek Podgorny 2005-05-15 05:11:12 UTC]

The current glibc ebuild runs some simple tests at the end of the build procedure to verify the build went fine. (line 497 and on it glibc-2.3.5.ebuild) These test fail when cross-compiling glibc because it's obvious I cannot run the target-system binaries.

Also, the lines 540-544 don't make much sense on a cross-compiled system and should be executed conditionally only if ${ROOT}="/"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-05-15 20:02:34 UTC]

a cross-compiling setup will never reach the simple sanity checks

ive fixed the iconv stuff in the latest 3 ebuilds

[Comment 2 Radek Podgorny 2005-05-17 03:56:52 UTC]

Let's take a deeper look into the ebuild. The native tests should be skipped
when is_crosscompile() returns true. is_crosscompile returns true if CHOST and
CTARGET (which is previously taken from CHOST) differ. When cross-compiling a
native build (to be used on other system) CHOST = CTARGET!

See http://podgorny.cz/moin/GentooOnIpaq how to reproduce...

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-05-17 05:30:42 UTC]

again, this is because you didnt provide enough info off the bat :p

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2005-05-17 15:25:55 UTC]

added a CBUILD!=CHOST check before doing the ld-* tests