perl ./configure failure (while attempting to configure for crosscomp ile build)

[Carl Miller]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:36:20PM +0000, Alexander Povolotsky wrote:
> 
>         powerpc-linux-gcc-3.3.2 -o try -O2 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -I/usr/local
> nclude -L/usr/local/lib try.c -lgdbm -lcrypt -lgdbm_compat
>          ./try
> 
> and I got the following output:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/3.3.2/../../../../powerpc-linux/bin/ld: c
> not find -lgdbm
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> I can't compile the test program.
> (The supplied flags or libraries might be incorrect.)

Not to mention that once you fix the compiler invocation such that it
does compile the test program, you'll error out one line later as the
configurator tries to run the newly compiled ./try (which in this case
will be a PPC binary, when the build host is not a PPC system).  Hence
the problem with cross-compiling PERL.  It expects to be able to run
executables it's built for the target system on the build system.
That's going to be much tougher to work around than your library search
path issue.

                              -----Carl

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