[netperf-talk] Re: Cross-compile netperf

[Rick Jones]

Ming Liu wrote:
> Dear Rick,
> Could you please tell me how to cross-compile the Netperf which could be 
> run on my PowerPC 405 processor? I cannot find a detailed explanation 
> from the manual. After the downloading and untaring the package, I use 
> the command "./configure --host ppc CC=powerpc-405-linux-gnu-gcc". 
> However unfortunately it doesn't work and error " checking whether 
> setpgrp takes no argument... configure:error: cannot check setpgrp when 
> cross compiling" appears. My host system is X86_64 PC with linux OS and 
> my target system is PowerPC 405 with linux too(embedded Ml403 board from 
> Xilinx company). In my condition, which arguments shall I specify? 
> Thanks for your telling.

I am afraid I don't have any direct experience with cross-compilation of
netperf, hence the lack of discussion in the manual :(  When creating
the configure script, I tried (from an academic perspecitve as it were)
to keep things such that it could cross compile, but am sure there were
issues.

For the specific case opf setpgrp checks, my initial suggestion would be
to edit the configure script and disable that check and move-on to the
next problem :)  Which may then need help from the likes of Xilinx.
Feel free to suggest to them it would be good to have them help make
netperf more cross-compilation-friendly - I'd be happy to take patches
from them or anyone else :)

happy benchmarking,

rick jones

> 
> Regards
> Ming
> 
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