From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2796 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2003 01:18:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2789 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2003 01:18:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp809.mail.sc5.yahoo.com) (66.163.168.188) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Nov 2003 01:18:19 -0000 Received: from adsl-68-124-85-66.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net (HELO ribrdb.com) (ribrdb@sbcglobal.net@68.124.85.66 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Nov 2003 01:18:17 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 01:18:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Rib Rdb To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Subject: Re: [ECOS] Building from OS X X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00143.txt.bz2 On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 04:49 PM, Rib Rdb wrote: > If I don't specify one it says: > checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host > type; you must specify one I guess it helps to check out the host package. Now it seems to work despite the fact that configure doesn't recognize the system type. > > On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 04:37 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: > >> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:26, Rib Rdb wrote: >>> What would be the proper way to build it. Configure complains about >>> an >>> unknown host type unless I lie and say --host=powerpc-apple-linux >>> instead of powerpc-apple-darwin. >>> Should I just configure as linux and then edit the generated >>> makefiles? >>> >> >> Do you even need to tell it the host? What happens if you just >> "configure"? >> >>> >>> On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 12:34 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:28, Rib Rdb wrote: >>>>> Since the configuration tool won't build on OS X, would it work to >>>>> configure and build eCos on a windows machine, then copy the >>>>> libraries >>>>> and headers to a Mac OS X machine and do the development there with >>>>> the >>>>> appropriate cross compilers? Also, would the version of gcc, etc >>>>> used >>>>> on the Mac have to be the same as on the Windows computer? >>>> >>>> Or, just use 'ecosconfig' on your Mac! which surely will build. >>>> >>>> There's no reason you absolutely have to use the Config Tool. >> >> -- >> Gary Thomas >> MLB Associates >> > -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://sources.redhat.com/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss