Re: Installing a cross-toolchain to build ARM binaries
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
<tshepang@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
There's also no GCC packages in "jessie" at the moment.
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