I have add an description into INSTALL, that other user have direct an
indicator.
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ffb071e..5918182 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
Git installation
Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that
-will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory. If you want
+will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory. If you want
to do a global install, you can do
$ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself
# make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info ;# as root
-(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite
+(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite
that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
install" would not work.
@@ -25,6 +25,31 @@ set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can
write instead
$ make all doc ;# as yourself
# make install install-doc install-html;# as root
+If you want to create a cross build of git, i.e. ARM or MIPS, you
+need to add addtional arguments to configure,
+i.e. for MIPS little endian
+
+ $ ./configure --build=x86_64-linux \
+ --host=mipsel-oe-linux \
+ --cache-file=config.cache
+
+i.e. for ARM
+
+ $ ./configure --build=x86_64-linux \
+ --host=arm-eabi \
+ --cache-file=config.cache
+
+To make this now work you need to create a config.cache file next to
+the configure. In this file you have to configure architecture
+specific behavior, example content could be
+
+ac_cv_snprintf_returns_bogus=${ac_cv_snprintf_returns_bogus=no}
+ac_cv_fread_reads_directories=${ac_cv_fread_reads_directories=no}
+
+For details about the meaning refer to the source code of the tests
+in the configure.ac by search of the ac_cv_...
+Important is that you assign 'no' or 'yes'.
+
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