I figured it out. Unfortunately there still seems to be this no child 
process issue.

On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:14:46 AM UTC+2, Martin Croome wrote:
>
> It seems like there is an install step that I'm missing where this script 
> is run but this is make difficult by the fact that I'm cross compiling.
>
> make check obviously doesn't work since run-tests cannot work on my host. 
> make tests/run-tests creates this libtool wrapper. I guess there is 
> something inbetween.
>
> On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:07:00 AM UTC+2, Martin Croome wrote:
>>
>> Hi. Thanks for replying
>>
>> I'm using the configure .. make build route. The resulting run-tests 
>> binary has a libtool shell wrapper around it which fails on my target since 
>> the paths are all wrong. I saw the fixtures for the tests and have copied 
>> all of those into an appropriate structure on the target. I've tried 
>> compiling only the static libuv.a (using arguments to configure) and then 
>> it seems to work ok (i.e. I get an elf executable) but then on my target 
>> platform I get a bizarre error. Waitpid in run-tests always returns -1 (no 
>> child process) even though everything seems to work ok (fork, exec 
>> individual test). A normal fork exec waitpid process works on my target. I 
>> built a test program to verify that.
>>
>> I'm wondering whether I shouldn't abandon autotools and try to build with 
>> gyp. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack to figure out where 
>> things are going wrong.
>>
>>
>> On Monday, October 6, 2014 8:47:41 AM UTC+2, Saúl Ibarra Corretgé wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/10/14 14:46, Martin Croome wrote: 
>>> > Hi 
>>> > 
>>> > I wonder if someone could give me a little help cross compiling the 
>>> > libuv unit tests. I'm using 1.0 and running into libtool/automake 
>>> > issues. The tests are built as a libtool executable with stuck on 
>>> script 
>>> > and all the paths are wrong for my target. Is there any simple way to 
>>> > force a normal binary to be built? 
>>> > 
>>>
>>> What issues are you running into? How are you cross-compiling libuv? The 
>>> tests are compiled as a static binary, but some of them do depend on 
>>> some fixture files and the libuv directory structure a bit. 
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers, 
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Saúl Ibarra Corretgé 
>>> http://bettercallsaghul.com 
>>>
>>

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