cross compiling postgresql 8.0.1 -- suggestion

This is no solution at all, surely. Why would you assume that make
install is going to be done by the target architecture, or that the
target even has a compiler (much less the same compiler that the build
tree has been configured for)? Besides, the problem isn't *building*
zic, it is *running* it.
There is prior discussion of this problem in the archives, but AFAIR
we didn't yet find a solution that people liked.

regards, tom lane

I apologize for being unclear. I assume that build system has a native
and a cross compiler. I don't assume anything about the target (In my
case target does not have a compiler). Installation happens on the
build system with DISTDIR pointing to an image root directory. Later
image is transfered to the target system.
I'd appreciate it if you could send me a pointer to that discussion.
My search was fruitless.

Thanks,
Vlad.

The usual approach to this situation (to the extent that cross
compilation is usual) is to set up two different compilers, CC for
cross compiling and CC_FOR_BUILD for native compilation. Then the
makefiles have to be adjusted to use the right one as the case may be.

Earlier, an argument against that arrangement was made on the grounds
that we can't know whether CC and CC_FOR_BUILD are similar enough to
support the same set of flags, but I say that this is a reasonable
assumption to make.

It could be instructive to look at some other packages where some setup
like this was necessary. A long time ago, Kaffe was one such instance
but I don't know what they do today.

Added to TODO:

* Fix cross-compiling of time zone database via 'zic'

I am open to better wording.