Hi Guenter, I can give it a try.
Kind Regards, Henrik On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 12:01 +0100, Guenter Knauf wrote: > Hi Henrik, > Am 16.03.2012 15:07, schrieb Henrik Strand: > > This error has been around for 10 years or so, but I could not find an > > error report on this issue so I created one (in May, 2011): > > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51257 > > > > There exists an old (2003-08-13) patch > > (http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=106150997309208&w=2) for this > > error but I do not think that it was integrated. > > > > Another patch > > (http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/server/gen_test_char.c?r1=758929&r2=795438&pathrev=1001398&diff_format=h) > > has recently been integrated to simplify cross-compilation. However, this > > patch does not solve the gen_test_char cross-compiling issue. > > > > A known workaround is to: > > 1. Cross-compile and wait for the build to fail. > > 2. Compile for build system and copy the gen_test_char binary to the > > cross-compiled build folder > > 3. Run make a second time for the cross-compiled system > > > > However, since I'm about to automate the build process this workaround > > is not sufficient for me. > this step with another 3 rounds of configure (APR, APU, httpd) + > compilation of APR/APU isnt really necessary; > instead just compile gen_test_char.c 1st with something like: > gcc -Wall -O2 -DCROSS_COMPILE gen_test_char.c -s -o gen_test_char > then run it and put its output into the include folder (or where its > placed normaly); > I believe you can then make it with only one go + automatically ... > > > It seems strange that this error has been around for so long time so I'm > > wondering if the Httpd build system does include some way to generate a > > correct gen_test_char file when cross-compiling? > nope; in order to make it the clean way we would need to have an --host > option to configure ... > I looked at the old 2003 patch which is for AP 1.3, and it looks > harmless, and could perhaps be integrated - are you up to provide a > patch for trunk? > > BTW. how is the cross-compilation of PCRE handled? There's a similar > case where a build helper is needed for generating chartables.c? > > Gün. > >
