On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:22:30PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:56:28PM +0400, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > > I would like to play a bit with the cross-compilability of > > debian-installer and therefore interested in previous attempts to do > > that -- anyone tried it before? > Yes, ages ago. My initial attempts at trying to build debian-installer > for m68k focused on cross-compiling. However, that's at least one > redesign of the d-i build system ago. > > I know cross building is not supported out of the box, but probably > > there were some patches against this earlier.. > > What might be the issues that I may come across? > IIRC, the showstopper that made me stop my attempts at cross-compiling > was the library reduction, which assumes target==host in a number of > places. Could be wrong, though; in any case, there are many, many places > where you'll find (small or large) bummers. Yes, the ability to run depmod being a major one. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I will move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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