Re: [PATCH 2/5] gnu: gnupg: Fixed cross-compile issues.

[John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>]

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On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:06:13PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
     
     > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 07:19:03PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     >      John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
     >      
     >      > *gnu/packages/gnupg.scm (libgpg-error): Added gcc as a native input,
     >      >  and set the CC_FOR_BUILD variable.
     >      
     >      The implicit inputs when cross-compiling include both the cross-gcc and
     >      the native gcc (see build-system/gnu.scm.)
     >      
     >      AFAICS setting CC_FOR_BUILD=gcc should be enough (it uses ???cc??? by
     >      default.)  Can you confirm.
     >
     > You are right.  setting gcc as a native input seems to be unnecessary.  Somewhat on
     > a tangent:
     >   Would it not be a good idea to have CC_FOR_BUILD=gcc the default setting at least
     > fot the gnu build-system.
     
     Yeah, perhaps we could add that when cross building (we have only two
     occurrences currently, but it may be needed quite often.)

Right.  PSPP should have it, but does not currently.
     
     >      > *gnu/packages/gnupg.scm (libgcrypt): Added libgpg-error as a native input and
     >      >  set the --with-gpg-error-prefix configure option.
     >      
     >      This is wrong: libgcrypt would end up linking against the native libgpg-error.
     >
     > I think you are mistaken.  The purpose of --with-gpg-error-prefix= is to set the path
     > of the library which it should be linked against.  The issue is, that libgpg-error provides
     > both a binary (which must be run at configure time) AND a library which has to be linked.
     
     Oh indeed, I was unaware of that.  So that explains why libgpg-error
     must be passed both as a native and target input.
     
     However, is --with-gpg-error-prefix really needed?  By default the cross
     gcc will find the target libgpg-error in its search path, and not the
     native one, so I would guess this is OK.

That was not my experience.  I will try it again, in case I missed something.
     
J'

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