Re: Building amd64 kernels on i386

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Brice Figureau <brice+debian@daysofwonder.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I own an amd64 server on which no gcc environment has been installed for
> security reasons.
>
> The only other machine on which I can build a kernel is my i386.
>
> A long time ago (I mean the last time I wanted to build an amd64 kernel
> on my i386 machine), I was following the woody-chroot thing that was in
> the amd64 FAQ (but disapeared).
>
> Now I have to build a new kernel and I want to produce a kernel package
> with the help to make-kpkg (for ease of distribution of the kernel and
> modules).
>
> I naively tried the following:
> $ make-kpkg -arch amd64
>
> But it complains about missing 'amd64-linux-gcc' which makes sense
> (although gcc -m64 could work fine).
>
> Looking at this list, I saw a few posts mentioning a package
> kernel-image that could help cross-compile the kernel.
> Unfortunately I can't find this package as it doesn't seem to be part of
> neither sarge nor sid for i386 or amd64.
>
> What should I do ?
> Thanks for any answers pointing me in the right direction.

Point out to the server admin that not having a gcc is just stupid and
not a security measure.

MfG
        Goswin