Re: ncurses cross-compilation error: arm-none-linux-gnueabi-as: unrecognized option '-Qy'

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, ldac wrote:

> I am trying to cross-compile the ncurses (I have downloaded the 5.7
> version) but I have the following error (at the end).
>
>     I have tried to find out what is happening but nothing. I am using a
> ncurses.spec file, and using the same .spec file (withouth changing
> anything, just the version number) version 5.3 works, but version 5.7
> fails.
>
>     Where is that -Qy option added to remove it?

I suspect it's in your compiler's configuration (for example, the "spec"
file under the lib-directory that tells it how to map commands into linker
commands).  gcc has a "-v" option which (shows less information than it
should) shows some of this.

> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/tools/sw/ltib-imx27ads-20071219/rpm/BUILD/ncurses-5.7/ncurses'
> /usr/bin/gcc -o make_hash -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -I./../include
> -I../include   -DMAIN_PROGRAM ./tinfo/comp_hash.c 
> arm-none-linux-gnueabi-as: unrecognized option '-Qy'
> make[1]: *** [make_hash] Error 1

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