Re: Cross-compiling debian-installer.

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:22:30PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:56:28PM +0400, Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
> 
> > > I would like to play a bit with the cross-compilability of
> > > debian-installer and therefore interested in previous attempts to do
> > > that -- anyone tried it before?
> 
> > Yes, ages ago. My initial attempts at trying to build debian-installer
> > for m68k focused on cross-compiling. However, that's at least one
> > redesign of the d-i build system ago.
> 
> > > I know cross building is not supported out of the box, but probably
> > > there were some patches against this earlier..
> > > What might be the issues that I may come across?
> 
> > IIRC, the showstopper that made me stop my attempts at cross-compiling
> > was the library reduction, which assumes target==host in a number of
> > places. Could be wrong, though; in any case, there are many, many places
> > where you'll find (small or large) bummers.
> 
> Yes, the ability to run depmod being a major one.

AFAIVR this was fixed when 2.6 support was added by supplying System.map.


Thiemo