Hi, JohnsonCheng! you wrote: > Yes. But how can I pass the testing?
Running it on the target - where it is actually supposed to work. > For cross-compile environment, the HOST and the TARGET are almost not the > same, so many utility can configure for cross-compile with host setting > except samba. Well, you can tell configure to skip the tests silently if HOST!=TARGET or give the message you got. But I wouldn't expect configure to guess how it can get the code from the host to the target. Yes, it's indeed a bad virus ;-) > It seems not sense. I'd like to see the message. For me I prefer to compile things native - if somehow possible. Greets, Clemens Koller _______________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1 81379 Muenchen Germany http://www.anagramm.de Phone: +49-89-741518-50 Fax: +49-89-741518-19 > -----Original Message----- > From: Clemens Koller [mailto:clemens.koller at anagramm.de] > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 6:24 PM > To: JohnsonCheng > Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org > Subject: Re: A configure error for samba3 on ppc > > Hi, JohnsonCheng! > > you wrote: > >>When I configure samba3.0.10 on ppc as following command: >> >>CC=powerpc-linux-gcc AR=powerpc-linux-ar RANLIB=powerpc-linux-ranlib >>./configure -host=powerpc-linux >> >>I got a configure error message as following: >>Configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling >>See 'config.log' for more details >> >>I think this is a samba configure bug, do anybody know how to pass it? > > > No, it's not a bug. It's exactly what the message trys to tell you. > Samba wants to do some tests. But as it's not a native build, > it doesn't want to execute itself for the tests. Because > samba might not run on a different platform as it was built for. > > If you want to do the tests, you need to let to do it on the > target where it was built for and not where it was built on. > > Samba works fine over here on ppc embedded systems. > > Greets, > > Clemens Koller
