On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:01:54PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > 3)d-i 'doesn't support cross-compiling'. This makes life slightly harder for > me, although it's better than bootfloppies, where native compiles took > forever. Looking at it, I can't see that much needs to change to make this > possible except getting the various instances of dpkg-architecture to give > the right answers (which I think can be done with dpkg-cross). Then it > should just get .udebs of the correct arch. Is there something I haven't > appreciated about how it works which is going to make cross-compiling really > tricky? If not I might try and get it working, just because it's convenient > for me. The last roadblock I (and others) ran into when trying to fix d-i CVS up for cross-building was that depmod has to be run during the build and doesn't handle modules from alien architectures. If you can figure this one out, I suspect the rest of the actual d-i build would be fairly simple to fix up for cross-building. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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