From: Annie Morin Date: March 11 1999 3:38pm Subject: MySQL : configure fails List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/27 Message-Id: <36E7E364.3F8C0291@viagenie.qc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I use Solaris 7. I also use gnu gcc for solaris 7. When i run ./configure, configure fails. with this sentence: configure: error: can not run test program while cross compiling What could be the problem? Annie Morin This is the output. groove# ./configure --with-debug=yes loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.7 checking target system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.7 checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.7 checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... missing checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes grep: can't open config.status checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... yes checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) is a cross-compiler... yes checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for bison... no checking for byacc... no checking if we should use skip-locking as default for solaris2.7... no checking for ln... /usr/bin/ln checking for ln... /usr/bin/ln checking for mv... /usr/bin/mv checking for rm... /usr/bin/rm checking for cp... /usr/bin/cp checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed checking for cmp... /usr/bin/cmp checking for chmod... /usr/bin/chmod checking for hostname... /usr/bin/hostname checking for perl5... no checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for ps... /usr/bin/ps checking how to find mysqld... /usr/bin/ps -ef | grep mysqld | grep " $$PID " > /dev/null checking for kill... /usr/bin/kill checking for kill switches... /usr/bin/kill -0 $$PID checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes checking for opendir in -ldir... no checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking for float.h... yes checking for floatingpoint.h... yes checking for ieeefp.h... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for pwd.h... yes checking for select.h... no checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for stddef.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for synch.h... yes checking for sys/mman.h... yes checking for sys/timeb.h... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/un.h... yes checking for sys/vadvise.h... no checking for sys/wait.h... (cached) yes checking for term.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for utime.h... yes checking for sys/utime.h... yes checking for termio.h... yes checking for termios.h... yes checking for sched.h... yes checking for alloca.h... yes checking for crypt.h... yes checking for floor in -lm... yes checking for gethostbyname_r in -lnsl_r... no checking for gethostbyname_r in -lnsl... yes checking for socket in -lsocket... yes checking for p2open in -lgen... yes checking for bind in -lbind... no checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes checking LinuxThreads... Not found checking DEC threads... no checking SCO threads... no checking named thread libs:... no checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes checking for strtok_r in -lpthread... yes checking for strtok_r... yes checking for restartable system calls... configure: error: can not run test program while cross compiling