Passing commands to the compiler with ./cofigure

Travis86 · 10-01-2003, 11:32 AM

I'm having a little trouble installing MySQL on my PS2. "./configure" won't work, "./configure -build=mipsel-redhat-linux" works a little better, but it still doesn't work. I think what I need to do is pass a few params to the compiler. "./configure --help" says you can do this with the environment variable "CPPFLAGS".

I added "env CPPFLAGS='-build=mipsel-redhat-linux'" to the ./configure shell script, but that didn't work. I looked through the man/help pages of the g++ and gcc, and I can't find where it talks about -build. I thought I had seen it in there somewhere before.

Why can't it figure out the build type, and how can I tell the compiler what the build type is?

Thanks.

/bin/bash · 10-08-2003, 07:03 PM

You need to post the error you are getting.

Travis86 · 10-08-2003, 08:02 PM

"./configure" (which takes maybe one second) says:

configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one

"./configure --build=mipsel-redhat-linux" (which takes about five minutes) says:

configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
configure: error: could not configure INNODB

"./configure --build=mipsel-redhat-linux" (with env CPPFLAGS=--build=mipsel-redhat-linux) takes as long and says the same thing.

pesho_p · 10-08-2003, 08:19 PM

How about: ./configure --host=mips_something (replace with your exact architecture name and try again). Does it make any difference?

Travis86 · 10-08-2003, 09:36 PM

I tried "./configure --build=mipsel-redhat-linux --host=mipsel-redhat-linux --target=mipsel-redhat-linux" and env CPPFLAGS='--build=mipsel-redhat-linux --host=mipsel-redhat-linux --target=mipsel-redhat-linux", but I got the same error message.

I noticed that it says it can't find mipsel-redhat-linux-g++ and a few other things with "mipsel-redhat-linux" in front of them. I don't think this matters since it keeps crunching along, but I thought I might mention it.

Travis86 · 10-16-2003, 09:01 AM

At last! I got it to install!

Apperently there's a seperate instillation of "INNODB" and INNODB didn't know the build type. I just edited the MySQL ./configure file so the INNODB ./configure would run with all of the flags, and I edited the INNODB ./configure so it would have the CPPFLAGS.