Originally Posted by wannessmet

@ lcuk

I followed your instructions but while trying to configure (ipmitool)

Code:

Nokia-N900-51-1:/home/user/MyDocs/Downloads/ipmitool-1.8.11# PATH=$PATH:. ;
Nokia-N900-51-1:/home/user/MyDocs/Downloads/ipmitool-1.8.11# sh ./configure
checking build system type... armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.
Nokia-N900-51-1:/home/user/MyDocs/Downloads/ipmitool-1.8.11# checking for gawk... no

Do you have any idea what's going wrong?

Originally Posted by lcuk

note, this doesnt bring in autotools or dpkg
so no ./configure stage works, and no dpkg-buildpackage will run.
(normal make files and find an alternative for packaging)

if you don't need them and can work with makefiles its certainly usable and fast.
if you need -dev headers for libraries, expect even more space, I find nowadays I can get by mostly with libliqbase-dev

hth