[omniORB] Cross compiling omniORB

[Duncan Grisby]

On Saturday 19 March, Philip Balister wrote:

> I am working on cross compiling omniORB using the Open Embedded build
> system. I am working from the configure files. It is pretty
> straightforward doing the native build so I have access to the tools
> such as omniidl. For the build for the embedded target I set the
> EmbeddedSystem variable to 1 and run make. This successfully persuades
> the build system to skipping the idl compiler etc.
> 
> The problem is I haven't found a "clean" to specify the paths to omniidl
> and the depend program. Has anyone found a good way to do this? Should I
> just modify the make files to set different paths based on the
> EmbeddedSystem variable?

Cross compiling omniORB isn't currently supported using the autoconf
configure script. If I were you, I'd avoid the pain and just use the old
build system. That way it's very easy. Just copy and edit one of the
existing embedded platform makefiles.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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