Re: cross-compiling packages

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

On 06.11.2020 06:29, Brook Milligan wrote:
> This raises the question, why is ${OBJECT_FMT} equal to "a.out"; both the build and target machines use ELF.

To find this out, run the show-all target, which is defined in pkgsrc:

(cd cross/cross-libtool-base && bmake show-all | less)

If there is nothing suspicious in the output of the above command, go to
the next level and run make(1) with some debug flags enabled:

bmake show-all -dcpv 2>&1 | less

This logs about 200.000 lines of details about condition evaluation
(-dc), parsing (-dp) and variable assignments and evaluation (-dv).  It
should give you an idea about what happens inside.

Roland