[ILUG] Cross-compiling emacs

[kevin lyda]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:33:51PM +0100, =C9ibhear wrote:
> I am in the process of building GNU emacs for my YOPY linux-based PDA =

> (http://www.yopy.com/). It's uses an ARM chip. Needless to say, the poor =

> thing is too small to install a C development environment, so I am =

> cross-compiling it on my x86 desktop.
> =

> However, during the build, emacs uses some of the binary executables it =

> builds: test-distrib, make-docfile, temacs and emacs itself. Of course, =

> they fail, and the build doesn't complete.
> =

> Has anyone any ideas on how this should be handled?

if i was doing such a thing, i'd grep the source tree for cross.*compil.
i suspect there are docs in it to explain how to do it.  in addition,
the output of ./configure --help might give some hints.

kevin

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