Re: [Lynx-dev] Make error with lynx-2.8.5

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:27:51PM -0800, Gaurav Dhiman wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to cross compile lynx for an ARM based platform (XScale). I
> configured it with ncurses-5.5 as the screen. However while executing
> make I am getting the following error message:
> 
> cd chrtrans && make tables
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gaurav/Desktop/lynx2-8-5/src/chrtrans'
> ./makeuctb ./cp1250_uni.tbl cp1250_uni.h
> ./makeuctb: ./makeuctb: cannot execute binary file
> make[2]: *** [cp1250_uni.h] Error 126
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gaurav/Desktop/lynx2-8-5/src/chrtrans'
> 
> >From what I can figure out it seems, that it has built makeuctb for ARM
> and is not being able to execute it (I faced a similar problem while
> building ncurses as well). It might need the native makeuctb out here
> but I cannot figure out how do I make it use the native binary.

yes - I looked into this a while back, but the cross-compiler I have
setup for djgpp didn't have enough C runtime support to build lynx (and
building a lot of libraries so I could debug the makefiles is not an
efficient way to develop).  It's complete enough for ncurses.

I've seen several references to ARM, but haven't seen where I could get
a cross-compiler system.  Since I'm not interested per se in any of the
targets, all I'm interested in is where I could find a reasonably
complete (but distinct architecture of course).

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