[Ffmpeg-devel] Patch to allow cross-compile with MacOS X

[Graham Booker]

I sent this patch before, but it received no response.  It was  
neither rejected nor commented on, so I must assumed it was missed.

The problem:
In order to do cross development on MacOS X, one has to tell gcc to  
use a different set of libraries, headers, etc...  In Apple's gcc,  
this is done by the -isysroot option.
The configure command we use on ppc to build for i368 is:
configure" --cross-compile --cpu=x86 --enable-pp --enable-gpl --extra- 
cflags='-arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk' --extra- 
ldflags='-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386'

And the config.err file ends with:

BEGIN /tmp/ffmpeg-conf-13958-3900-1136.c
      1	int main(){
      2	    return 0;
      3	}
END /tmp/ffmpeg-conf-13958-3900-1136.c
cc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -no-cpp- 
precomp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -force_cpusubtype_ALL -Wno-sign- 
compare -Wl,-dynamic,-search_paths_first -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/ 
MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -o /tmp/ffmpeg-conf-23951-3900-23211 /tmp/ 
ffmpeg-conf-13958-3900-1136.c
/usr/bin/ld: -syslibroot: multiply specified
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
C compiler test failed.

The problem is that the -isysroot must be given to both the compile  
and link stages, but the configure tests doing both in the same  
stage.  The error message "-syslibroot: multiply specified" clearly  
indicates that this option can only be specified once (even if it is  
the same).  The solution is to separate the compile and link stages  
in the configure, which is all that the following patch does.

It was created against svn 5649, but still applies to svn 5706.  I am  
including the text of the patch here because it is short and the list  
stripped the attachment the first time I tried to send it:

Index: configure
===================================================================
--- configure	(revision 5649)
+++ configure	(working copy)
@@ -226,8 +226,10 @@
      log check_ld "$@"
      cat >$TMPC
      log_file $TMPC
-    log $cc $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS "$@" -o $TMPE $TMPC $extralibs
-    $cc $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS "$@" -o $TMPE $TMPC $extralibs >>$logfile 2>&1
+    log $cc $CFLAGS "$@" -c -o $TMPO $TMPC >>$logfile 2>&1
+    $cc $CFLAGS "$@" -c -o $TMPO $TMPC >>$logfile 2>&1
+    log $cc $LDFLAGS "$@" -o $TMPE $TMPO $extralibs >>$logfile 2>&1
+    $cc $LDFLAGS "$@" -o $TMPE $TMPO $extralibs >>$logfile 2>&1
}
check_cflags(){


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- Graham