Re: Cross compiling CVS head

[Kalle Vahlman <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

On 2/16/06, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Trey Boudreau wrote:
>
> > Howdy all,
> >
> > I've got myself mostly set up to cross-compile gtk+ (x86 to ARM), but
> > I've run into a snag:
> >
> >       gtk/gtkicontheme.c: In function `_gtk_icon_theme_ensure_builtin_cache':
> >       gtk/gtkicontheme.c:1160: error: `builtin_icons' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >
> > It turns out I end up with an empty gtkbuiltincache.h because the build
> > wants to run the ARM target version of gtk-update-icon-cache it just built.
> >
> > I tried looking for something similar in Bugzilla but I failed to find
> > anything relevant.  If I missed it and/or if anyone knows of a
> > work-around, I'd appreciate the help.
>
> I don't see any easy workaround, as gtk-update-icon-cache depends
> on the gdkpixbuf library.  Gtk+ is not the first to have this
> problem, many projects do not support cross-compiling from CVS
> checkout.  An ugly workaround is to import gtkbuiltnicache.h into
> CVS, but I doubt that's going to happen.

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