On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:10:28 +0000 Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> wrote: > I've thought for a long time that a package like build-essential for > cross-building would be a really good idea. > > Currently to get the right tools and libs installed for cross-building > you need to do slightly different things on different distros > > Having just been looking at sbuild cross-support it becomes clear that > something like this would be a very useful adititon. > > Can anyone see any reason why we shouldn't just have > $arch-crossbuild-essential which depends on the right things? shouldn't it be crossbuild-essential-$arch? it would help tab completion for apt, and would probably allow easier searching. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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