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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:29:16 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [GSoC] building JtR for MIC
On 2015-03-18 11:38, Solar Designer wrote:
> I notice that in jumbo my original mic.h is modified to use autoconf'ed
> ARCH_* settings:
>
> #if AC_BUILT
> #include "autoconfig.h"
> #else
> #define ARCH_WORD long
> #define ARCH_SIZE 8
> #define ARCH_BITS 64
> #define ARCH_BITS_LOG 6
> #define ARCH_BITS_STR "64"
> #define ARCH_LITTLE_ENDIAN 1
> #define ARCH_INT_GT_32 0
> #endif
>
> This might be wrong since we're cross-compiling. I doubt it's causing
> trouble now, though, since the host system is almost certainly x86_64,
> for which these settings just happen to be the same.
If configure does not realize we are cross-compiling, we are doing
something wrong. If it does, it will likely end up with the correct
figures for the target, not the build host.
configure will know you are cross-compiling if you supply a host triplet
using eg. --host=i686-apple-darwin (which is what to use if building
32-bit from a 64-bit OSX) that differs from the build host (which should
almost always end up right without an option - but there is one). I'm
not quite sure what to supply for the MIC on Super but Lei suggests we
use "--host=mic-linux" and I would think this would end up right.
I believe configure will also understand we are cross-compiling under a
few other circumstances but you should verify this. The first few lines
of output tells the tale:
*checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0*
*checking host system type... i686-apple-darwin*
checking whether to compile using MPI... no
checking for i686-apple-darwin-gcc... gcc -m32 -mno-avx
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
*checking whether we are cross compiling... no*
Hmm, the above is weird. Maybe building 32-bit from 64-bit is merely
borderlining a cross compile.
Anyway, if things seem to end up wrong, the least you should do (and
what I did when I got the above output) is `--disable-native-tests`.
This is very close to saying "we ARE cross-compiling". No native checks
will be made on the build host for getting info about the targeted system.
magnum
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