[Iftop-users] Supporting cross-compilation

[Paul Warren]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:49:01PM -0700, Tim Freeman wrote:
> I was using my PC running Linux to compile iftop for my Linksys
> WRT54GS router running Openwrt (which is an instance of Linux), and I
> discovered that the "configure" script for iftop doesn't support
> cross-compilation.  It insists on running experiments on the
> local host.  I rearranged configure.in so the generated "configure"
> script supports cross-compilation.
> 
> Some of the macros used in the old configure.in were deprecated
> according to current autoconf documentation, so I substituted current
> ones.

Excellent - someone who understands autoconf!  

> Here's a patch to configure.in.  The patch also adds a NO_SYSTEM
> compiler flag that, when set, disables the "!" key that starts a
> subshell.  This makes me more willing to run iftop as the login shell
> of a passwordless account so the other users of my router can triage
> some network performance problems without bugging me.

Good plan - both of these are now committed to CVS, and will appear in
the next release.

thanks,

Paul