cross compliation --host=armle-unknown-linux --target=armle-unknown-linux fails due to "error: cannot check for file existence when cross compiling"

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

Compilation with
<code>
git clone git://git.remlab.net/miredo.git; cd miredo
git checkout <1.2.4/1.2.5/1.2.6>
libtoolize
./autogen.sh
env CC=/usr/local/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc LD=/usr/local/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-ld RANLIB=/usr/local/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-ranlib CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/libc/include -mhard-float -mfpu=vfpv3-d16" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi/libc/lib" ./configure --host=armle-unknown-linux --target=armle-unknown-linux --build=i686-pc-linux --prefix=/usr/local # as recommended in the http://usdl.synology.com/download/ds/userguide/Synology_DiskStation_Manager_3rd_Party_Apps_Developer_Guide.pdf
</code>
fails with due to <code>
configure: error: cannot check for file existence when cross compiling
</code> when checking for /proc/self/maps

Output of command sequence and config.log attached

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

You need --disable-binreloc to cross-compile versions 1.2.x. This was already fixed in HEAD for a while.

[Karl-Philipp Richter (krichter722)]

If this is causes by a specific missing option, I guess it would make sense to improve the output, then telling everybody directly the thing you just told here :)