bind 9 cross compilation error

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Oct 15 03:08:12 UTC 2007


> Hi all,
> 
> I am a newbie to bind9. I have started cross compiling bind9 for my target 
> arm-linux platform and I keep getting some errors while configuring bind9.
> 
> ./configure --target=arm-linux --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu 
> --prefix=/home/cm-x270/cmrootfs/ 
> BUILD_CC=/scratchbox/compilers/arm-gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/bin/arm-linux-gcc
> 
>  configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
>     If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
> ....
> checking for random device... /dev/random
> checking for /dev/random... configure: error: cannot check for file existence
>  
> when cross compiling
> sara:/home/sara/bind-9.4.1# 
> 
> I have my host development x86 machine running linux and /scratchbox tool for
>  
> cross compilation 
> (/scratchbox/compilers/arm-gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2/bin/arm-linux- ). 
> 
> Can anyone precise me how can I cross compile bind9 for my arm platform using
>  
> scratchbox ?
> 
> Thanks
> Sara
> 

	./configure .... --with-randomdev=<path>
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