Thanks man, I appreciate it. After reading your response, I understood the
issue and was able to create a bunch of patches to mak it work.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 3:52 PM Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 18:34, swhite <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I need to include an old open source project named judy for a legacy
> > utility dependency. The recipe I have so far is listed at the end of
> this email. The
> > build host is 64bit linux, I'm using dunfell and the MACHINE I'm build
> for is "genericx86-64".
> > The issue I'm seeing is when compiling judy, it builds and then executes
> a
> > binary named "JudyLTablesGen" as part of the process. However the
> execution
> > fails with:
> >
> >     /bin/sh: ./JudyLTablesGen: No such file or directory
>
> This is a classic problem with software that doesn't consider
> cross-compilation (and even when building for a similar architecture,
> like genericx86-64 on an x86 host, you're cross-compiling in Yocto).
>
> The makefiles generate a binary that it expects to be able to run.
> This is a bad assumption as you're cross-compiling: that binary needs
> to be built with the host compiler (BUILD_CC) instead.  However, the
> Makefile.am does this:
>
> JudyLTables.c: JudyLTablesGen.c
>         $(CC) $(INCLUDES) $(AM_CFLAGS) @CFLAGS@ -o JudyLTablesGen
> JudyLTablesGen.c; ./JudyLTablesGen
>
> A non-upstreamable fix would be to simply change that line to
> $(BUILD_CC) $(BUILD_CFLAGS) $(BUILD_LDFLAGS) -o JudyLTablesGen [...].
> As the project is dead, an upstreamable fix isn't useful.
>
> Whilst I'm here that FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend is redundant, and the
> source of Judy looks like fairly typical autoconf so you can remove
> your do_configure and just 'inherit autotools', this will also pass
> the correct host/build/target flags and so on.
>
> Also note that a more recently maintained fork appears to be at
> https://github.com/netdata/libjudy.
>
> Ross
>
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