Newbie ->cross compile GTK for ARM - ./configure problems - LD not finding libc library

[Clive Chapman <anbeyon btinternet com>]

Hi

 I want to cross compile GTK and all of the associated libraries so that I
 can use them on an ARM based embedded target.

I am currently trying to cross compile the glib library and I am having some
problems.  I've obviously not got something quite right.

Any pointers you might be able to give would be great!

I have downloaded all of the libraries and have them unpacked into sub
directores of;

/home/anbeyon/Documents/Projects/Chord/Pandora4/Software/GTK/glib-2.6.4

if in a terminal window list all sub-dirs I get

.   Archives  atk-1.9.0   gtk+-2.6.7  libpng-1.2.8  pkgconfig-0.15.0
..  GTKBuild  glib-2.6.4  jpeg-6b     pango-1.8.0   tiff-3.7.2

Archives is where I have all of the original .GZ etc... files. GTKBuild is
where I plan to build the compiled libs to. Each set of libs is to be built
into a subdirectory of GTKBuild.  i.e. glib is to reside
in ..../GTKBuild/glib

I have the GNU target compiler installed  in  /usr/local/arm/3.3.2

I am currently trying to compile glib;

from the command line I change directory to

/home/anbeyon/Documents/Projects/Chord/Pandora4/Software/GTK/glib-2.6.4/glib-
2.6.4 and invoke ./configure as below;

./configure CC=/usr/local/arm/3.3.2/bin/arm-linux-gcc --host=arm-linux
--build=i686-linux
--prefix=/home/anbeyon/Documents/Projects/Chord/Pandora4/Software/GTK/GTKBuil
d/glib --libdir=/usr/local/arm/3.3.2/arm-linux/lib
--includedir=/usr/local/arm/3.3.2/arm-linux/include

Does that look correct ?  Have I made any errors ?

I get the following in my terminal;

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for arm-linux-strip... no
checking for strip... strip
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for native Win32... no
checking for arm-linux-gcc... /usr/local/arm/3.3.2/bin/arm-linux-gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

If I then examine config.log  part way through I get the
following message; ( see the line starting >>>>>)

gcc version 3.3.2
configure:2821: $? = 0
configure:2823: /usr/local/arm/3.3.2/bin/arm-linux-gcc -V </dev/null >&5
arm-linux-gcc: `-V' option must have argument
configure:2826: $? = 1
configure:2849: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2852: /usr/local/arm/3.3.2/bin/arm-linux-gcc    conftest.c  >&5
/usr/local/arm/3.3.2/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/arm-linux/3.3.2/../../../../arm-linux

>>>>/bin/ld: cannot find /usr/local/arm-linux/lib/libc.so.6<<<<<

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2855: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:

The linker cannot find the library.  It doesn't seem to be looking
in the right place for the libc.so.6 file. It's not looking where I specify
them using --libdir when configure is invoked.

I have checked the Arm compiler lib path I specified in the command line and
libc.so.6 is there. (/usr/local/arm/3.3.2/arm-linux/lib)

Are you able to help me please ?

Thanks