need help cross compiling nss

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I'm using WindRiver Linux 2.0 to cross compile nss to a PowerPC. The
3.11.4 build instructions and troubleshooting don't cover something
like this.  Can someone point me to documentation that would describe
how to set the compiler, flags, install location, etc...?
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How important is shlibsign?

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I'm cross compiling nss to PPC, and during the install phase, the make
runs a shlibsign utility.

At first, it couldn't run because it had been built for the target
hardware.  So, i found a shlibsign on the host computer, and tried to
use that, but get a message;

".../libssl3.so: ELF file data encoding not little-endian"

So, I can't use the cross compiled version, and I can't use the host
version.  What's gonna happen if I just short circuit the sign.sh
script and don't do it?  What problems is that going to cause at run
time on the target?
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Re: How important is shlibsign?

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Follow on information;

I was able to get the host shlibsign to run by editing the sign.sh
script, end commenting out all the environment variables it exports,
which pointed into cross-compiled libraries. So, the host version was
able to run and process the files it needed to.   Is that going to
break anything on the target?
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Re: need help cross compiling nss

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nvm

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What if i cross compile without NSS/NSPR

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I have been able to cross compile NSS/NSPR and ecrypt-utils, but the
cross build system does not recognize NSS/NSPR as providing any
binaries.  This might be due to them using a funky nsinstall program
instead of the linux install program - I don't know.  Bottom line, it
won't install ecrypt-utils due to missing dependencies.

Anyhow, i notice the ecryptfs-utils configure file appears to allow me
to build without nss support.  my question is what am i losing if I
don't use NSS/NSPR?

Is there an alternative to the NSS/NSPR?
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