Cross-compiling for ARM with Autoconf

Question

I am having trouble cross-compiling a library for my arm board using autconf.

I am using this line:

./configure --target=arm-linux --host=arm-linux --prefix=/bla/bla/bla/linux_arm_tool CFLAGS='-m32'
make
make install

When I do file to check it I get:

libjpeg.so.8.4.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped

That doesn't seem right at all, but I tried using it anyway... and I get:

/usr/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.5.3/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /bla/bla/bla/bla/../linux_arm_tool/lib/libjpeg.so when searching for -ljpeg

I'm at a loss, I've been googling for an hour now...

Answer 1

So I knew I've cross compiled before using really basic method calls and I figured out why I've gotten away with this before after examining the output:

checking for arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc... no
checking for gcc... gcc
...
...
checking for arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc... gcc

In my /usr/bin there was no arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc, I had to:

ln -s /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.5 /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc

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I successfully cross-compiled using:

./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi -prefix=${CSTOOL_DIR}/linux_arm_tool

as for linking ... I still have to check some things, but I am going to assume I might need to throw some -rpath-link flags in more advanced compiles.