Subject: Re: crossbuild fails when objdir on NFS
To: sgimips NetBSD list <sgimips@mrynet.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 04/28/2004 19:44:00
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 06:48:17PM -0500, sgimips NetBSD list wrote:
> Hi All,
>=20
> Maybe someone can shed light on this problem, or indicate if they have
> had similar experience:
>=20
> I'm attempting to cross compile NetBSD ports under FreeBSD 5.2.1 alpha
> architecture.
>=20
> I can successfully cross-build ports fine when MAKEOBJDIR is set to a
> native filesystem.   But when I have MAKEOBJDIR pointing to an NFS
> mounted filesystem, the builds fail during gcc configuration--a tail of
> the log is below.
>=20
> The final end-all error message coming out of "configure" is:
> 	Configuration alpha-unknown-freebsd5.2.1 not supported
> But, as mentioned, all is fine on a native filesystem.
>=20
> I'm currently attempting to build the MAIN branch.  The netbsd-2-0
> branch fails similarly.   Something must be funky with either the=20
> cross tools and NFS for MAKEOBJDIR, or maybe some kind of NFS buggie?
>=20
> Any suggested resolutions or info on others' experience doing this?

First off, what does the configure report if you don't use objdirs? Also,=
=20
have you don't a cleandir lately? You might have some file left over=20
that's changing how configure completes.

Take care,

Bill

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