[Speex-dev] Cross-compiling speex

[Ben Leslie]

Hi all,

I'm cross-compiling speex for a GNU/Linux ARM target.

I want to compile only the libraries, and not the speex executables.

I don't have a libogg cross-compiled, and would prefer the need to
have to set it up.

Unfortunately:

1/ the speex executables depend on libogg header files,

although, the speex executables are only compiled if the libogg header
files are available

2/ the libogg check is only done when cross-compiling

3/ libogg is assume to exist when cross-compiling

Obviously it is the third thing here that gets me. I confess to being
completely useless
with atuo*, so my 'fix' was simply to change #3, so that configure
assumed that libogg
_did not_ exist when cross-compiling. This is obviously a crappy solution.

I think it would be nice if there was a flag to pass to configure
which disabled compiling
of the binaries explicitly. Unfortunately I don't grok auto* enough to
work out how to
do this.

Finally, my questions:

1/ Am I doing something completely broken/unsupported here?

2/ Is explicitly having a way to not compile the binaries useful/acceptable?

3/ Any pointers on how I would go about implementing that?

Thanks,

Benno