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Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?



On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 06:40:12AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:04:49PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Bill Allombert a ?crit :
> > >My personnal plan is to set up one or two fast amd64 octocore as a m68k 
> > >buildd.
> > >That would lift most of the objection with the port.
> > The question is to know if it is ok to use emulators to build and upload 
> > packages?

> The m68k porters have been firmly against cross-compiling in the past,
> it's their call on whether this sort of approach is suitable.

FWIW, it's my understanding he intends to run aranym on these systems,
thereby making this native building in an emulator rather than
cross-building.

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