Comments on: How to Cross Compile the Bash shell for Android 1.5

By: smith

smith — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:44:02 +0000

You might want to see the updated instructions to compile latest BASH on Android:

http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2011/09/04/compiling-bash-for-android-2-x/

Found it through Google, it works perfect.

By: Alexander R Pruss

Alexander R Pruss — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:04:52 +0000

Thanks for posting. I just used this method to compile tar. But because there were multiple makefiles, instead of adding -static to each makefile, I just did
CC=’arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc -static’ ./configure [other options]
That did it everywhere.

By: Amar

Amar — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:05:40 +0000

Hi,
Really looks a nice tutorial. I am gonna try this to cross compile bash for my android phone.
Just one typo I have noticed, you have menioned “adp” some place instead of “adb”.

Thanks,
Amar

By: Marius Schrecker

Marius Schrecker — Tue, 24 May 2011 09:25:00 +0000

UPDATE:

It seems that only bash 4.2 has this problem. 4.1 compiled without issues.

Cheers!

By: Marius Schrecker

Marius Schrecker — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:38:38 +0000

Hi, Thanks for very useful guide. I’m trying to do this, using bash 4.2 sources and the codesourcery compiler compiled from this source package:
http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/package8738/public/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-2011.03-41-arm-none-linux-gnueabi.src.tar.bz2

The bash compile is failing on:
execute_cmd.c:2205:23: error: ‘job_control’ undeclared (first use in this function)

and I can’t find the necessary library anywhere to provide the function nor does disabling job-control in the bash config help.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Cheers!

By: matter

matter — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:21:44 +0000

Mostly helpful and thank you!

Watch out if you copy and paste Qistoph’s ./configure options, those are not dashes!

The ./configure routine works great if you make a symlink to the compiler:

$ ls -l `which arm-linux-gcc`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 74 Mar 30 17:29 /usr/bin/arm-linux-gcc -> /home/matter/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc

Then you don’t need to fuss around with the Makefile at all.

Tested on bash-4.0 and bash-4.1, but bash-4.2 throws this error:

$ make

***********************************************************
* *
* GNU bash, version 4.2.0(1)-release (arm-unknown-linux-gnu)
* *
***********************************************************

rm -f execute_cmd.o
arm-linux-gcc -DPROGRAM=’”bash”‘ -DCONF_HOSTTYPE=’”arm”‘ -DCONF_OSTYPE=’”linux-gnu”‘ -DCONF_MACHTYPE=’”arm-unknown-linux-gnu”‘ -DCONF_VENDOR=’”unknown”‘ -DLOCALEDIR=’”/opt/arm_bash/share/locale”‘ -DPACKAGE=’”bash”‘ -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -g -O2 -c execute_cmd.c
execute_cmd.c: In function ‘execute_in_subshell’:
execute_cmd.c:1507:5: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘execute_command_internal’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type
execute_cmd.c:522:1: note: expected ‘struct COMMAND *’ but argument is of type ‘volatile struct COMMAND *’
execute_cmd.c: In function ‘execute_pipeline’:
execute_cmd.c:2205:23: error: ‘job_control’ undeclared (first use in this function)
execute_cmd.c:2205:23: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
execute_cmd.c: In function ‘execute_function’:
execute_cmd.c:4243:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘array_rshift’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type
array.h:56:12: note: expected ‘struct ARRAY *’ but argument is of type ‘volatile struct ARRAY *’
execute_cmd.c:4245:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘array_rshift’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type
array.h:56:12: note: expected ‘struct ARRAY *’ but argument is of type ‘volatile struct ARRAY *’
execute_cmd.c:4320:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘array_shift’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type
array.h:55:23: note: expected ‘struct ARRAY *’ but argument is of type ‘volatile struct ARRAY *’
execute_cmd.c:4321:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘array_shift’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type
array.h:55:23: note: expected ‘struct ARRAY *’ but argument is of type ‘volatile struct ARRAY *’
make: *** [execute_cmd.o] Error 1

Have fun!

By: John Hamelink

John Hamelink — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:43:53 +0000

Thanks alot, Kyle & Qistoph. An amalgamation of both your methods worked for me. I’m going to try and compile links next

By: mark

mark — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:27:16 +0000

im currently trying to cross compile the glasgow haskell compiler for android. due to not really being familiar with linux i tried to apply your instructions to the windows version of the code sourcery g++ tool. well… didn’t work out. you dont happen to know how to conduct the second step in windows? thanks!

By: Qistoph

Qistoph — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:36:07 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial.

I had to change some commands to get it to compile.
The CC en PATH was useless. And I used a modified ./configure command:

./configure –prefix=/opt/arm_bash/ –build=i686-pc-linux-gnu –host=arm-linux –enable-static-link –without-bash-malloc CC=/home/chris/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc

What might be good to know too, is that you need the cross compiler for GNU/Linux from Code Sourcery.