[fdo] error on cross compiling libdbus

[Havoc Pennington]

hong zhang wrote:
> List,
> 
> I want to cross compiling libdbus for arm processor
> with Montavista toolchain. But I went into error.
> Says,
> 
> checking for posix getpwnam_r... configure: error:
> cannot run test program while cross compiling
> 

There is nothing dbus-specific here, this is just standard 
cross-compilation with autoconf.

I don't really know the details of how it works but in essence you have 
to provide a hardcoded answer to the configure test, since the configure 
script can't run the test program.

Havoc