So as you may recall I am trying to get things started on an x86-64 port. Since I don't have real hardware -- and it looks I will not have access to any for a while I have been playing around with the bochs emulator and a gcc-3.2-based cross compiler I built of the CVS snapshots from x86-64.org. I would like to build a cross compiler (host=i386/i686, target=x86-64) and package it up in a deb. I don't think this package should go into the debian distribution, so I will not event suggest it. I will, however, make it available on my server -- if anyone else cares to use it. Since the compiler is a standard gcc-3.2 \w x86-64 patches, making the actual deb will be trivial (that is, I will use the existing gcc-3.2 source package as a blueprint). However, I cannot just install it in /usr/bin/gcc because it would clash with the base compiler (not to mention the apt gcc-wrapper)... so I know that I will need a prefix. I will probably pick x86-64- as the prefix, since it makes sense and is relatively short (the default would be x86-64-unknown-linux-). Now, my question is: should it be installed in prefix=/usr or /opt or /usr/local. I understand that the debian-way (TM) is to instal in /usr, but this is a less then usual package, no? Moreover, what should I call the package? x86-64-gcc-3.2.i386.deb? Just wanted to get some feedback... TIA. Bart. -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/
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