[Click] Cross compile click packages

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Sascha,

I think I may have checked in something that will help you.  You will
need to update Click as well as your package's configure.ac and
Makefile.in (the click-packages git has been updated to show you what
is needed).  Let me know.

Eddie


On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Sascha Alexander Jopen
<jopen at informatik.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> In my case it's the easier deployment. In particular, i use the OpenWRT
> buildroot for cross compilation of click packages. I install the
> complete click "base package" with DESTDIR into a staging directory for
> further usage.
>
> So far i changed some definitions within the makefiles to use the click
> build tools directly out of the source directory, because the installed
> versions would be host binaries, not build system binaries. After fixing
> the include directories and data directories i could compile two
> different packages for userlevel. Neither linuxmodules nor bsdmodule
> will work with the attached patch.
> Im pretty sure this patch is not complete. I'm really new to such
> "complex" makefiles. For example, no dependency files (*.d) are
> generated for my packges, though this worked before.
>
> Sascha
>
> On 11/09/11 15:07, Eddie Kohler wrote:
>> In particular, it might be much easier to handle this:
>>
>> Click prefix => /usr/local/click
>> Click temporary installation directory => /usr/local/click-cross/usr/local/click
>>
>> than this:
>>
>> Click prefix => /usr/local/click
>> Click temporary installation directory => /usr/local/click-cross
>>
>> Eddie
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Eddie Kohler <ekohler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Sascha,
>>>
>>> Hmm.
>>>
>>> Can you tell me a bit more about your deployment situation?... Are you
>>> installing with a DESTDIR, or copying the whole tree somewhere else?
>>> It is not immediately clear to me how this should be handled.
>>>
>>> Eddie
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Sascha Alexander Jopen
>>> <jopen at informatik.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> does anybody cross compile click packages?
>>>>
>>>> If i cross compile click with the default prefix, but install it to a
>>>> different location for further usage with click packages, the file
>>>> config.mk in clickdatadir contains the original prefix. This is fine to
>>>> define the directories for the final destination locations of the
>>>> packaged to be cross compiled, but the package Makefiles use this
>>>> information to find the installed click instance, too. One can configure
>>>> a package with --with-click=PREFIX, but this doesn't help.
>>>>
>>>> I know that i can compile click with local elements instead of packages,
>>>> but using packages is a cleaner way, i think.
>>>>
>>>> Are there any special configure flags or something similar i am missing,
>>>> to get click packages cross compiled?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sascha
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