[Ltrace-devel] cross compiling ltrace

[Joe Damato]

Hi

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou wrote:
>>> Ping, please choose:
>>
>> [*] I'm interested in autoconf/automake patches
>> [ ] I hate autotools, cmake is better
>> [ ] I'm not interested at all
>
> Yesterday I started to autotoolize the latest ltrace.git

Thanks for your work on this! I think it might be interesting to try
to merge a bunch of the changes floating around the mailing list the
last few months (insert more noise about my libdl branch here) to make
it easier for Juan to merge to master when he has the time.

> It's in the "dev/autotools" branch in my tree:
> git://git.pengutronix.de/git/mkl/ltrace.git dev/autotools
> http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=mkl/ltrace.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dev/autotools
>
> It compiles and works natively on powerpc, i386 and x86_64. Cross
> compilation has been tested from x86_64 to arm and powerpc.
>
> It passes "make distcheck", this means it can create ready-to-compile
> tarballs.
>
> For those who want to test, checkout the dev/autotools branch from my
> tree, then the usual:
>
> ./autogen && ./configure && make && make install

I on an amd64 Debian Lenny box and I got the following output:

[joe at sloth:/home/joe/code/ltrace]% ./autogen.sh

----------
autoreconf
----------

configure.ac:3: error: Autoconf version 2.65 or higher is required
configure.ac:3: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 63


My autoconf version is 2.61.

I changed configure.ac manually just to see what would happen
(probably a bad idea!) and set the version to 2.61. It failed with the
following errors:

[joe at sloth:/home/joe/code/ltrace]% ./autogen.sh

----------
autoreconf
----------

configure.ac:32: warning: The macro `AC_FOREACH' is obsolete.
configure.ac:32: You should run autoupdate.
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:196: AC_FOREACH is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:830: _AM_SET_OPTIONS is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:556: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.ac:32: the top level
autoreconf: cannot create config/autoconf: No such file or directory
configure.ac:32: warning: The macro `AC_FOREACH' is obsolete.
configure.ac:32: You should run autoupdate.
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:196: AC_FOREACH is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:830: _AM_SET_OPTIONS is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:556: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.ac:32: the top level
configure.ac:9: required directory ./config/autoconf does not exist
configure.ac:10: installing `config/autoconf/config.guess'; error
while making link: No such file or directory
configure.ac:10: installing `config/autoconf/config.sub'; error while
making link: No such file or directory
configure.ac:32: installing `config/autoconf/install-sh'; error while
making link: No such file or directory
configure.ac:32: installing `config/autoconf/missing'; error while
making link: No such file or directory
sysdeps/linux-gnu/Makefile.am:16: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL'
is undefined
sysdeps/linux-gnu/Makefile.am:16:   The usual way to define `LIBTOOL'
is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
sysdeps/linux-gnu/Makefile.am:16:   to `configure.ac' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/Makefile.am:16:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in
`configure.ac', make sure
sysdeps/linux-gnu/Makefile.am:16:   its definition is in aclocal's search path.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/Makefile.am: installing `config/autoconf/depcomp';
error while making link: No such file or directory
sysdeps/linux-gnu/alpha/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but
`LIBTOOL' is undefined
sysdeps/linux-gnu/alpha/Makefile.am:1:   The usual way to define
`LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
sysdeps/linux-gnu/alpha/Makefile.am:1:   to `configure.ac' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/alpha/Makefile.am:1:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in
`configure.ac', make sure
sysdeps/linux-gnu/alpha/Makefile.am:1:   its definition is in
aclocal's search path.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/arm/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but
`LIBTOOL' is undefined
sysdeps/linux-gnu/arm/Makefile.am:1:   The usual way to define
`LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
sysdeps/linux-gnu/arm/Makefile.am:1:   to `configure.ac' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/arm/Makefile.am:1:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in
`configure.ac', make sure
sysdeps/linux-gnu/arm/Makefile.am:1:   its definition is in aclocal's
search path.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/i386/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but
`LIBTOOL' is undefined
sysdeps/linux-gnu/i386/Makefile.am:1:   The usual way to define
`LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
sysdeps/linux-gnu/i386/Makefile.am:1:   to `configure.ac' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/i386/Makefile.am:1:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in
`configure.ac', make sure
sysdeps/linux-gnu/i386/Makefile.am:1:   its definition is in aclocal's
search path.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/ia64/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but
`LIBTOOL' is undefined
sysdeps/linux-gnu/ia64/Makefile.am:1:   The usual way to define
`LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
sysdeps/linux-gnu/ia64/Makefile.am:1:   to `configure.ac' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/ia64/Makefile.am:1:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in
`configure.ac', make sure
sysdeps/linux-gnu/ia64/Makefile.am:1:   its definition is in aclocal's
search path.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/m68k/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but
`LIBTOOL' is undefined
sysdeps/linux-gnu/m68k/Makefile.am:1:   The usual way to define
`LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
sysdeps/linux-gnu/m68k/Makefile.am:1:   to `configure.ac' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/m68k/Makefile.am:1:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in
`configure.ac', make sure
sysdeps/linux-gnu/m68k/Makefile.am:1:   its definition is in aclocal's
search path.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/mipsel/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but
`LIBTOOL' is undefined
sysdeps/linux-gnu/mipsel/Makefile.am:1:   The usual way to define
`LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
sysdeps/linux-gnu/mipsel/Makefile.am:1:   to `configure.ac' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/mipsel/Makefile.am:1:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in
`configure.ac', make sure
sysdeps/linux-gnu/mipsel/Makefile.am:1:   its definition is in
aclocal's search path.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/ppc/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but
`LIBTOOL' is undefined
sysdeps/linux-gnu/ppc/Makefile.am:1:   The usual way to define
`LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
sysdeps/linux-gnu/ppc/Makefile.am:1:   to `configure.ac' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/ppc/Makefile.am:1:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in
`configure.ac', make sure
sysdeps/linux-gnu/ppc/Makefile.am:1:   its definition is in aclocal's
search path.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/s390/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but
`LIBTOOL' is undefined
sysdeps/linux-gnu/s390/Makefile.am:1:   The usual way to define
`LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
sysdeps/linux-gnu/s390/Makefile.am:1:   to `configure.ac' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/s390/Makefile.am:1:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in
`configure.ac', make sure
sysdeps/linux-gnu/s390/Makefile.am:1:   its definition is in aclocal's
search path.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/sparc/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but
`LIBTOOL' is undefined
sysdeps/linux-gnu/sparc/Makefile.am:1:   The usual way to define
`LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
sysdeps/linux-gnu/sparc/Makefile.am:1:   to `configure.ac' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/sparc/Makefile.am:1:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in
`configure.ac', make sure
sysdeps/linux-gnu/sparc/Makefile.am:1:   its definition is in
aclocal's search path.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/x86_64/Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but
`LIBTOOL' is undefined
sysdeps/linux-gnu/x86_64/Makefile.am:1:   The usual way to define
`LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
sysdeps/linux-gnu/x86_64/Makefile.am:1:   to `configure.ac' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
sysdeps/linux-gnu/x86_64/Makefile.am:1:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in
`configure.ac', make sure
sysdeps/linux-gnu/x86_64/Makefile.am:1:   its definition is in
aclocal's search path.
Makefile.am:8: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
Makefile.am:8:   The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
Makefile.am:8:   to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
Makefile.am:8:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in `configure.ac', make sure
Makefile.am:8:   its definition is in aclocal's search path.
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1


Let me know if you'd like me to try anything else.

Thanks,
Joe