[Skyeye-developer] Makefile problems and proposed modification

[Yonghao Wang]

Hi Lee,

Thanks, your patch is better, would you please commit that in later.
Cross-compiling does verify skyeye can run across platforms itself, but for
beginners it is not easy job and we might need a little bit robust for
detecing native hosts.

Regards

Y.Wang

On 4/2/07, Anthony Lee <don.anthony.lee+program at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Wang,
>
> My sugesstion is adding the following lines to the front of "Makefile".
> IMHO, it's useful to try cross-compile manually and test whether
> the changes provide SkyEye to work on other platforms by setting
> $(OSTYPE) instead of finding from the output of "uname".
>
>
> ####################################################
> ifndef OSTYPE
>
> ifeq ($(findstring CYGWIN,$(shell uname -m)),CYGWIN)
> OSTYPE=cygwin
> TERM=cygwin
> endif
>
> ifeq ($(findstring MINGW32,$(shell uname -m)),MINGW32)
> OSTYPE=msys
> endif
>
> endif
> ###################################################
>
>
> Best Regards.
> Lee
>
>
> 2007/4/2, Yonghao Wang <wyonghao at gmail.com>:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I checked out latest trunk of skyeye's makefile. I use cygwin/winxp,
> however
> > there are problems with getting environments variables. For example:
> Anthony
> > Lee's change of makefile to check system environment variables and add
> bfd
> > library support:
> >
> > BFD_LIBS =
> >
> > ifdef NO_BFD
> >     CFLAGS += -DNO_BFD
> > else
> >     # Anthony Lee 2006-09-18 : for getopt/bfd on Cygwin
> >     # BFD_LIBS -------------------------------- START
> >     ifneq ($(OSTYPE),msys)
> >      ifeq ($(TERM),cygwin)
> >     BFD_LIBS += -lc
> >     endif
> >     endif
> >
> >     BFD_LIBS += -lbfd -liberty
> >
> >     ifneq ($(OSTYPE),msys)
> >     ifeq ($(TERM),cygwin)
> >     BFD_LIBS += -lintl
> >     endif
> >     endif
> >     # BFD_LIBS -------------------------------- END
> > endif
> >
> > But the problem is that current bash doesn't automatically export env
> > variables such as OSTYPE, TERM etc, so my makefile return from $(TERM)
> and
> > $(OSTYPE) are always empty. Therefore the cygwin mailing list suggest
> you
> > should use 'uname' instead of OSTYPE. My changes to my working copy are
> > adding:
> >
> > OSTYPE = $(shell uname -msr)
> >
> > and replace ALL
> >         ifeq ($(TERM),cygwin)
> > with
> > ifeq ($(findstring CYGWIN,$(OSTYPE)),CYGWIN)
> >
> > Now it checks everything on my cygwin/winxp OK and make without any
> problem.
> > I suppose we also need to replace
> >     ifeq ($(OSTYPE),msys)
> > with
> > ifeq ($(findstring MINGW32,$(OSTYPE)),MINGW32)
> >
> > But I don't know about uname value of beos so
> >     ifeq ($(OSTYPE),beos)
> > should be replaced with something as well.
> >
> > So if you have those system and test for us, we can have a working
> patch.
> > You suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > Y.Wang
> >
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