Re: Installing a cross-toolchain to build ARM binaries
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org> wrote:
> On 3 December 2013 22:42, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I tried to install a cross-toolchain so I could build Linux kernel on
>> amd64 (jessie) for my ARM system. I have this entry in sources.list:
>>
>> deb http://www.emdebian.org/debian sid main
>>
>> When I tried to install gcc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabi, I get an error:
>>
>> cc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabi : Depends: libgomp1-armel-cross (>=
>> 4.7.2-5) but it is not going to be installed
>>
>> libgomp1-armel-cross in turn depends on gcc-4.8-base-armel-cross which
>> is not available anywhere.
>>
>> I did manage to install these cross-build tools, from the same
>> repository, and even built a kernel that now runs on these ARM systems
>> some weeks ago, but not anymore. Is there something broken in that
>> repository? I tried a few other versions of GCC, and still get the
>> same issue.
>>
>
> packages in "sid" are not guaranteed to be installable, furthermore
> they are affected by cross-arch mismatches.
> Please use packages from "testing" (aka jessie).
"testing" at the moment points to "wheezy":
http://www.emdebian.org/debian/dists/testing/Release
BTW, I only got "squeeze" working so far (some days ago), though I
needed to install some Dependency from that suite from Debian proper.
> Also please use armhf toolchain, there is no reason to not use that to
> cross-compile kernels.
Why then is the armel toolchain still provided?
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