Cross Compile krb5

[Ken Raeburn]

On Jan 8, 2009, at 15:44, Pedro Cavalcante wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> I'm trying to cross compile krb5 for sh4 (STLinux) and i stopped in
> this problem: "Cannot test for constructor/destructor support when  
> cross
> compiling". My question is: Can I cross compile krb5 for any  
> plataform?
> Could you share with me the solution?

It's not trivial, as you've noticed, but I think it should be  
possible.  You may have to spent a little time working on some of the  
makefile rules, and setting a few configuration variables before  
starting.

The autoconf-generated configure scripts generally have the ability to  
cache configuration information learned from the environment, to speed  
up later invocations.  The file "config.cache" will be generated after  
a successful invocation, so you can look at the sort of stuff that  
goes in there if you do a native build on some system.

In this case, the variable krb5_cv_attr_constructor_destructor is set  
to "yes" if you're using a compilation environment that supports  
"__attribute__((constructor))" to indicate functions that should be  
run at startup or library load time and "__attribute__((destructor))"  
for cleanup functions; generally that equates to whether you're using  
GCC, but not always.  If you set it to "no", you may have to add  
support in config/shlib.conf and include/k5-platform.h to support the  
target, and it's a bit convoluted...

Ken