Cross-compile nginx 1.3.6

The following adds support for cross compiling nginx. You need SSH access to your system to run the tests. It's not a complete patch because it still looks locally for headers and such.

diff --git a/auto/endianness b/auto/endianness
--- a/auto/endianness
+++ b/auto/endianness
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 eval "$ngx_test >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1"

 if [ -x $NGX_AUTOTEST ]; then
-    if $NGX_AUTOTEST >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    if auto/run $NGX_AUTOTEST >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         echo " little endian"
         have=NGX_HAVE_LITTLE_ENDIAN . auto/have
     else
diff --git a/auto/feature b/auto/feature
--- a/auto/feature
+++ b/auto/feature
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@

         yes)
             # /bin/sh is used to intercept "Killed" or "Abort trap" messages
-            if /bin/sh -c $NGX_AUTOTEST >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1; then
+#            if /bin/sh -c $NGX_AUTOTEST >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1; then
+            if auto/run $NGX_AUTOTEST >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1; then
                 echo " found"
                 ngx_found=yes

@@ -68,14 +69,15 @@

         value)
             # /bin/sh is used to intercept "Killed" or "Abort trap" messages
-            if /bin/sh -c $NGX_AUTOTEST >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1; then
+#            if /bin/sh -c $NGX_AUTOTEST >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1; then
+            if auto/run $NGX_AUTOTEST >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1; then
                 echo " found"
                 ngx_found=yes

                 cat << END >> $NGX_AUTO_CONFIG_H

 #ifndef $ngx_feature_name
-#define $ngx_feature_name  `$NGX_AUTOTEST`
+#define $ngx_feature_name  `auto/run $NGX_AUTOTEST`
 #endif

 END
@@ -86,7 +88,8 @@

         bug)
             # /bin/sh is used to intercept "Killed" or "Abort trap" messages
-            if /bin/sh -c $NGX_AUTOTEST >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1; then
+#            if /bin/sh -c $NGX_AUTOTEST >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1; then
+            if auto/run $NGX_AUTOTEST >> $NGX_AUTOCONF_ERR 2>&1; then
                 echo " not found"

             else
diff --git a/auto/os/linux b/auto/os/linux
--- a/auto/os/linux
+++ b/auto/os/linux
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@

 # Linux kernel version

-version=$((`uname -r \
+version=$((`auto/run uname -r \
     | sed -n -e 's/^\([0-9][0-9]*\)\.\([0-9][0-9]*\)\.\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/ \
                                                  \1*256*256+\2*256+\3/p' \
              -e 's/^\([0-9][0-9]*\)\.\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1*256*256+\2*256/p'`))
diff --git a/auto/types/sizeof b/auto/types/sizeof
--- a/auto/types/sizeof
+++ b/auto/types/sizeof
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@


 if [ -x $NGX_AUTOTEST ]; then
-    ngx_size=`$NGX_AUTOTEST`
+    ngx_size=`auto/run $NGX_AUTOTEST`
     echo " $ngx_size bytes"
 fi

You'll need to create a auto/run script that's used for running scripts remotely. I used:

diff --git a/auto/run b/auto/run
new file mode 100755
--- /dev/null
+++ b/auto/run
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+basedir=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))
+keyfile=${basedir}/remote-ssh-key
+logfile=${basedir}/run.txt
+remote="root@testhost"
+verbose=
+
+if [ "$1" = "-v" ] ; then
+    verbose=1
+    shift
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 COMMAND ARG..."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+set -e -u
+
+if [ ! -f $keyfile ] ; then
+    echo "Generating key file $keyfile" >> ${logfile}
+    ssh-keygen -f ${keyfile} -N ""
+    echo "Transferring key to remote system (type in password please)" >> ${logfile}
+    scp -q ${keyfile}.pub ${remote}:/tmp
+    echo "Adding file to authorized_keys (type in password please)" >> ${logfile}
+    ssh -q ${remote} "mkdir ~/.ssh; chmod 700 ~ ~/.ssh; cat /tmp/remote-ssh-key.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys;"
+fi
+
+if [ -x "$1" ] ; then
+    if [ -n "$verbose" ] ; then
+       echo "Copying $1 to $remote" >&2
+    else
+       echo "$(date) Copying $1 to $remote" >> ${logfile}
+    fi
+    scp -q -i ${keyfile} "$1" ${remote}:/tmp
+    remotename="/tmp/$(basename $1)"
+    shift
+    if [ -n "$verbose" ] ; then
+       echo "Running remotely: ${remotename} $@" >&2
+    else
+    else
+       echo "$(date) Running remotely: ${remotename} $@" >> ${logfile}
+    fi
+    ssh -q -i ${keyfile} ${remote} "${remotename} $@"
+else
+    if [ -n "$verbose" ] ; then
+       echo "Running remotely: $@" >&2
+    else
+       echo "$(date) Running remotely: $@" >> ${logfile}
+    fi
+    ssh -q -i ${keyfile} ${remote} "$@"
+fi