Re: ARM Ports BoF: armel in buster
On 2017-08-28 19:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 08/28/2017 06:30 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> > But my experience is quiet good with this:
> >
> > ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi- dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -aarmel ...
> >
> > I don't remember what the ARCH variable is used for.
> > Maybe it is not needed.
>
> You shouldn't be building packages like that if you want to guarantee that they
> will actually work in the target environment since your approach is not building
> in a clean environment. Also, this way you will have to install all build dependencies
> yourself.
This depends on the build process: In my case we build in a
clean environment with all build dependencies pre-installed.
Remember, this is not a generic Debian build process, but a
specialised one for certain packages.
> > Yes, we develop for squeeze in a squeeze chroot or VM, and for stretch
> > in a stretch container. Multi-arch makes things easy on stretch, that
> > were difficult on squeeze (dpkg-cross, apt-cross, ...).
>
> Or just create chroots for the architectures you need with qemu-debootstrap. No
> need to use any fancy containerization fuzz. All you ever needed was a chroot
> and sbuild, no need for a bigger software stack written in Golang on top of that.
No Go/docker here, nor qemu, just systemd-nspawn :~)
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