Hello, In the hope that this might be useful to someone else, attached is a patch to the main tzcode Makefile that we use to cross build. The reason for the patch is that in a cross-compiling environment, generating the data files requires a zic which runs on the host and the target requires the cross-built binary, so the Makefile generates both. I have tested this with ARM targets. We build using a rpm .spec file with something like: make HOST_CC=<path_to_the_host_cc> TOPDIR=%{__prefix} TZDIR=%{_prefix}/share/zoneinfo ETCDIR=%{_prefix}/usr/bin By the way, you can probably ignore the parts about "nawk"->"awk" (I did not have nawk installed), and the bit about "ksh"->"bash" (I didn't have ksh). Thanks! , John Faith Freescale Semiconductor --- timezone-2006n/Makefile.orig 2006-10-02 12:32:16.000000000 -0700 +++ timezone-2006n/Makefile 2006-10-19 10:25:23.000000000 -0700 @@ -218,9 +218,11 @@ CFLAGS= zic= ./zic ZIC= $(zic) $(ZFLAGS) +zic-host= ./zic-host +ZIC-HOST= $(zic-host) $(ZFLAGS) # The name of a Posix-compliant `awk' on your system. -AWK= nawk +AWK= awk # The path where SGML DTDs are kept. SGML_SEARCH_PATH= $(TOPDIR)/share/doc/sgml-lib/REC-html401-19991224/ @@ -244,8 +246,15 @@ VALIDATE_ENV = \ cc= cc CC= $(cc) -DTZDIR=\"$(TZDIR)\" +# Get host compiler for cross environment. If HOST_CC is not defined, +# assume non-cross build. +ifndef HOST_CC + HOST_CC=$(CC) +endif + TZCSRCS= zic.c localtime.c asctime.c scheck.c ialloc.c TZCOBJS= zic.o localtime.o asctime.o scheck.o ialloc.o +TZCOBJS-HOST= zic-host.o localtime-host.o asctime-host.o scheck-host.o ialloc-host.o TZDSRCS= zdump.c localtime.c ialloc.c TZDOBJS= zdump.o localtime.o ialloc.o DATESRCS= date.c localtime.c logwtmp.c strftime.c asctime.c @@ -278,12 +287,12 @@ ENCHILADA= $(DOCS) $(SOURCES) $(DATA) $( SHELL= /bin/sh -all: tzselect zic zdump $(LIBOBJS) +all: tzselect zic zic-host zdump $(LIBOBJS) ALL: all date install: all $(DATA) $(REDO) $(TZLIB) $(MANS) $(TABDATA) - $(ZIC) -y $(YEARISTYPE) \ + $(ZIC-HOST) -y $(YEARISTYPE) \ -d $(TZDIR) -l $(LOCALTIME) -p $(POSIXRULES) -rm -f $(TZDIR)/iso3166.tab $(TZDIR)/zone.tab cp iso3166.tab zone.tab $(TZDIR)/. @@ -314,15 +323,18 @@ zdump: $(TZDOBJS) zic: $(TZCOBJS) yearistype $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LFLAGS) $(TZCOBJS) $(LDLIBS) -o $@ +zic-host: $(TZCOBJS-HOST) yearistype + $(HOST_CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LFLAGS) $(TZCOBJS-HOST) $(LDLIBS) -o $@ + yearistype: yearistype.sh cp yearistype.sh yearistype chmod +x yearistype -posix_only: zic $(TDATA) - $(ZIC) -y $(YEARISTYPE) -d $(TZDIR) -L /dev/null $(TDATA) +posix_only: zic-host $(TDATA) + $(ZIC-HOST) -y $(YEARISTYPE) -d $(TZDIR) -L /dev/null $(TDATA) -right_only: zic leapseconds $(TDATA) - $(ZIC) -y $(YEARISTYPE) -d $(TZDIR) -L leapseconds $(TDATA) +right_only: zic-host leapseconds $(TDATA) + $(ZIC-HOST) -y $(YEARISTYPE) -d $(TZDIR) -L leapseconds $(TDATA) # In earlier versions of this makefile, the other two directories were # subdirectories of $(TZDIR). However, this led to configuration errors. @@ -333,9 +345,9 @@ right_only: zic leapseconds $(TDATA) # Therefore, the other two directories are now siblings of $(TZDIR). # You must replace all of $(TZDIR) to switch from not using leap seconds # to using them, or vice versa. -other_two: zic leapseconds $(TDATA) - $(ZIC) -y $(YEARISTYPE) -d $(TZDIR)-posix -L /dev/null $(TDATA) - $(ZIC) -y $(YEARISTYPE) \ +other_two: zic-host leapseconds $(TDATA) + $(ZIC-HOST) -y $(YEARISTYPE) -d $(TZDIR)-posix -L /dev/null $(TDATA) + $(ZIC-HOST) -y $(YEARISTYPE) \ -d $(TZDIR)-leaps -L leapseconds $(TDATA) posix_right: posix_only other_two @@ -364,6 +376,7 @@ tzselect: tzselect.ksh sed \ -e 's|AWK=[^}]*|AWK=$(AWK)|g' \ -e 's|TZDIR=[^}]*|TZDIR=$(TZDIR)|' \ + -e 's|/bin/ksh|/bin/bash|g' \ <$? >$@ chmod +x $@ @@ -423,4 +436,8 @@ scheck.o: private.h strftime.o: tzfile.h zic.o: private.h tzfile.h +# Rules for host objects +%-host.o: %.c + $(HOST_CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@ + .KEEP_STATE: