Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 11:44:06AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Also, which are those packages? At minimum, binutils, gcc and glibc need
> > to support multiarch, and be built this way -- and that's mostly because
> > gcc's cross compiling support is in such poor shape when contrasted
> > with native compiling. [And it's probably worth noting that multiarch
> > doesn't seem to address cross compiling at all.]
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 06:35:22PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> From what I understood of things, multiarch is supposed to make
> cross compiling easier too. There should be an
> /usr/bin/$arch-$os for the toolchain binaries and /usr/include/$arch-os
> for includes.
Cross compiling means $arch is different from $host (neither of which
need be identical to uname, in the general case).
Multiarch assumes $arch and $host are the same.
--
Raul
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