Cross compiling (Qtopia/Zaurus) bug in Kdevelop

[Bernd Lachner]

Hello,

I have found a bug in KDevelop. I have a project which compiles fine in 
KDevelop as a normal Qt2 program and as a Qtopia program for x86.

When I switch the compilers (and Qt, library and include pathes) to ARM the 
following error occured when KDevelop calls configure:

checking for Qt.. configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (library qte) not found. 
Please check your installation! 
For more details about this problem, loo at the end of config.log.


O.K. I looked at config.log and found this:
configure:6769: rm -rf SunWS_cache; g++ -o conftest -O2 -O0 -fno-exceptions 
-fno-check-new -fno-rtti -DQWS -I/opt/Qtopia/sharp//include   -DQTOPIA 
-D_REENTRANT  -DQWS -L/opt/Qtopia/sharp//lib     conftest.C  -lqte -lpng -lz 
-lm -ljpeg  1>&5
/opt/Qtopia/sharp//lib/libqte.so: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


Hmm. libqte in /opt/Qtopia/sharp//lib  is the correct ARM lib, this is 100% 
sure.

In the config.log I found also this:

configure:2974: checking for ld used by GCC
configure:3042: checking if the linker (/usr/i486-suse-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld


Its a stupid idea from KDevelop or the configure script to use a 486 linker to 
link a ARM library, this must fail.

After this I searched in Kdevelop, if I can set the linker (LD) for ARM. But 
only CC, CXX and CPP can set in KDevelop, so far I see. Why can't I set the 
linker for cross compiling? What can I do that KDevelop can runs the 
configure script?

Btw. If I call the configure script in the console with the same options as 
KDevelop and the LD variable is set to the arm linker the configure script 
succeeds.

Best regards

Bernd Lachner