Cross compilation: GCC ignores --sysroot

Question

I\'m trying to cross compile programs (currently avconv from libav) for a Nokia N9 phone using arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc from Linux Mint\'s 64-bit repository. The compiler\'s li

Answer 1

since I wasted a few days messing with this before reading the comments, I'm going to post artless noise's comments as an answer:

"Run the compiler with arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -v and look at the value of --with-sysroot; this is the directory the compiler was built with. If you have this directory present on your machine (maybe with a different compiler), then the --sysroot may not work[; and if you do not see --with-sysroot and instead see --with-libs, it] means your gcc is compiled without --sysroot support."