At Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:30:29 -0400, Michael G Soyka wrote: > Question 1. > The configure script takes 3 arguments that appear to be relevant: > "--build", "--host", and "--target". Although the GNU Standards file > talks about them, I'm still unclear as to which ones I should use. > Could someone please explain the differences between them. I have tried: > > --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.7 > --host=sparc-sun-solaris2.7 > --target=ppc-ibm-mcos >
To cross compile use --host=ppc-ibm-mcos (the type of system on which the package runs). > Question 2. > What are these .lo and .la files created by the Makefiles? These are libtool files. The actual .a files can be found in the .libs subdirectories. > Question 3. > What does "libtool" do? It is a wrapper around the compiler to compile static and dynamically linked versions of a library at the same time. -- Brian Gough GNU Scientific Library - http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list Help-gsl@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
