GMP on Arm architecture

[Jonathan A. Zylstra]

Ganeriwal Saurabh wrote:

>hi,
>
>I am trying to cross compile the GMP library for arm architecture. I am
>doing it on a Pentium 4 machine running Fedora 4 distribution. None of the
>steps: configure, make and make all gives me any problem. In fact, I am
>also able to see the final .h and .a files.
>
>However, when i do "make check" in between make and make install as
>mentioned in the documentation, it gives me "All the checks failed: 5 out
>of 5 failed". Now is this something to worry. Is the problem with the fact
>that I am doing cross compiling and not performing the checks on the
>intended platform (arm out here).
>
>  
>
That's the problem. By cross compiling, you are making an executable 
with machine code that only an ARM machine
can understand. This machine code is different than the x86 machine code 
that your Pentium runs on. The 'make check' command
actually creates dozens of small executables which run a few 
calculations each, and it checks the results of these and compares them to
the correct answers. Since these executables can't run, the checks 
therefore fail. They have to be run on the ARM machine.

Now, as far as I remember, once a test fails, the 'make check' quits, 
and doesn't compile any further test programs.
If anyone else knows of a quick way to just compile all of the test 
programs without running them   that would help.
[my first guess would be 'make -k check', which continues to run make, 
ignoring errors -- but that's just a guess]
That way you could compile all the programs on your P4, move them to the 
ARM, and then just run them on the ARM without worrying about compiling.

Note that if you're creating a dynamic library, you would also have to 
copy over the main gmp library over to the ARM machine before running 
any tests.

Jonathan
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