as additional info to my earlier post, this is where i'm getting stuck trying to cross-compile lftp-3.2.1 for the powerpc using the ELDK3.1.1 toolchain from www.denx.de.
$ export CC=ppc_8xx-gcc $ ./configure --with-ssl --disable-static --host=powerpc-linux ... much configure output here, until ... =================================== ... checking for XML_ParserCreateNS in -lexpat... yes checking for "/dev/ptc"... configure: error: cannot check for file existence when cross compiling $ =================================== as i read it, in the "configure" file, starting at line 26477, there is a check is the host contains "linux" or is a version of SCO and, if so, it hardcodes that there is no /dev/ptmx file, which skips the next several lines. this is a good thing since, if it didn't, it would have aborted there for the same reason. however, there is no such check when testing for /dev/ptc, which causes the configure step to abort, complaining that it can't test for file existence when cross-compiling. so what's the normal solution to this? thanks for any info. rday
