Unfortunately, I am having difficulty cross-compiling Git for the ARMv6 architecture.

But before I begin describing the steps I've taken and commands I've entered, I should briefly describe the build environment:

  • I am cross-compiling on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit.
  • The cross compiler is installed to /home/my_name/cctoolchain (this directory contains bin/, lib/, etc.).

I began by grabbing Git 1.8.2 from here. After extracting the directory I ran:

export PATH=$PATH:/home/my_name/cctoolchain/bin

I also ran autoconf to make sure that ./configure was up to date. Then I invoked ./configure as follows:

./configure --prefix=/home/my_name/git-arm --build=x86_64-linux-gnu
  --host=arm-linux-androideabi

This ran for a couple of seconds and then aborted with:

checking whether system succeeds to read fopen'ed directory...
configure: error: in `/home/my_name/git-1.8.2':
configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling

I cracked open configure.ac and removed lines 806-825, disabling the test. After doing that, I also had to remove lines 806-839 for a similar reason.

At this point, the ./configure script was able to complete. I then excitedly ran make to build Git and after a few more moments, ran into this error:

fetch-pack.c: In function 'fetch_pack':
fetch-pack.c:928:16: error: 'struct stat' has no member named 'st_mtim'
make: *** [fetch-pack.o] Error 1

Somehow I get the feeling I'm "doing it wrong". This sounds like something that should be a lot easier than manually removing tests from configure.ac. What am I missing?

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