Cross compilation of nagios

[queen245]

Hi All,

Can anyone guide me how to cross compile nagios for a different platform. Accoding to the help, i have used the --host command but it does not configure properly.
The command i give is : ./configure --host=xscale

Some of the related info of the displayed result is as below
checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… xscale-unknown-none
checking for xscale-gcc… no
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… no

The above line shows we are not cross compiling. Can anyone help how to cross compile for an xscale_be target platform?

Thanks

[luca]

checking for xscale-gcc… no

Quite simply no compiler available…
I don’t know what’s required for xscale, but if i look on my server in aptitude i see pocketpc-gcc so you probably need something similar

[queen245]

[quote=“luca”]

checking for xscale-gcc… no

Quite simply no compiler available…
I don’t know what’s required for xscale, but if i look on my server in aptitude i see pocketpc-gcc so you probably need something similar :)[/quote]

HI luca,

Thanks for your reply.
Tried giving ./configure --host=xscale CC=xscale_be-gcc

Now i get

checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… xscale-unknown-none
checking for xscale-gcc… xscale_be-gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… yes
checking for suffix of executables…
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether xscale_be-gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for xscale_be-gcc option to accept ANSI C… none needed
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking for strip… /usr/bin/strip
checking how to run the C preprocessor… xscale_be-gcc -E

Had two additional queries,

1. it configures without errors…but Is it fine… to get ----- “checking host system type… xscale-unknown-none”

2. After configuring, when i do a “make all”, it gives errors as below

[root@localhost nagios-3.2.0]# make all
cd ./base && make
make[1]: Entering directory /home/queenie/nagios-3.2.0/base' xscale_be-gcc -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DNSCORE -c -o broker.o broker.c In file included from ../include/nebcallbacks.h:29, from broker.c:30: ../include/nebmodules.h:80: error: parse error before "lt_ptr" ../include/nebmodules.h:80: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union ../include/nebmodules.h:81: warning: data definition has no type or storage class ../include/nebmodules.h:91: error: parse error before '}' token ../include/nebmodules.h:91: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from broker.c:30: ../include/nebcallbacks.h:81: error: parse error before '*' token In file included from broker.c:32: ../include/nebmods.h:54: error: parse error before '*' token ../include/nebmods.h:57: error: parse error before '*' token make[1]: *** [broker.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /home/queenie/nagios-3.2.0/base’
make: *** [all] Error 2

Well my nagios version is 3.2.0 and gcc version is : xscale_be-gcc (GCC) 3.3.1
Could it be a need a newer gcc? if so, what version of nagios will be suitable for this 3.3.1 gcc verson

Hi… another update
Tried with nagios-2.12 and still have the same error while compiling (make all)

If i load nagios-3.2.0 or nagios-2.12 on my RHL 9.0 , it compiles(./configure and then make all) fine.
The gcc --version for PHL 9.0 is as below
gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)

Any clue???

Please help !!

[luca]

i NEVER cross compiled so i have really no idea where the problems could lie. sorry.
try searching on google if somebody ever compiled nagios for xscale.