Re: Groff 1.21 does not build when cross-compiling

[Daiki Ueno]

Christophe Jarry <address@hidden> writes:

>     checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in
> `/microcebus/build/groff-1.21/src/libs/gnulib': configure: error: cannot run C
> compiled programs.

It looks that the original config args should be passed to
src/libs/gnulib/configure.  Could you try the attached patch?  This is
based on a snippet in "(autoconf) config.status Invocation".

Index: Makefile.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/groff/groff/Makefile.in,v
retrieving revision 1.116
diff -u -r1.116 Makefile.in
--- Makefile.in 26 Jul 2011 17:11:09 -0000      1.116
+++ Makefile.in 29 Jul 2011 03:59:19 -0000
@@ -774,7 +774,8 @@
        case $(do) in \
        all) \
        cd $@; \
-       test -f Makefile || $(SHELL) $$srcdir/configure ; \
+       args=`$(top_builddir)/config.status --config`; \
+       test -f Makefile || eval $$srcdir/configure "$$args" --srcdir=$$srcdir; 
\
        $(MAKE) ACLOCAL=: AUTOCONF=: AUTOHEADER=: AUTOMAKE=: $(do) ;; \
        esac
 

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno