[Buildroot] nfs-utils build failed

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Hicks <mort@bork.org> writes:

 Martin> 2011/2/20 Zden?k Materna <zdenek.materna@gmail.com>:
 >> Hello,
 >> 
 >> I'm back with another problem which I can't solve. I'm using buildroot from
 >> git, uclibc 0.9.31 and there is some problem with building nfs-utils (build
 >> log at bottom). If I understand it right rpcgen is used to generate mount.h.
 >> But rpcgen is compiled for target and can't be run on host. Then it's little
 >> bit strange that mount.h missing error is produced before "rpcgen: cannot
 >> execute binary file" error.
 >> 
 >> Can anybody explain it for me? I'm quite confused with it. And any tips what
 >> to do to compile nfs-utils?

 Martin> I fought with this in a non buildroot environment this week.  The
 Martin> reason is that rpcgen is compiled with your cross compiler and not
 Martin> your build host's CC.  I couldn't figure out how to make automake use
 Martin> my host's compiler, but did eventually figure out that if you install
 Martin> the rpcgen program from your build server's package manager into
 Martin> /usr/bin  you can specify RPCGEN=/usr/bin/rpcgen and nfs-utils will
 Martin> stop trying to compile this tool and just use the one you've
 Martin> specified.

FYI: I've fixed the nfs-utils package in git to build rpcgen itself, so
you no longer need this.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard