On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:14:41AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > I fully realize that its not possible to bootstrap an architecture > without either machine-code programming, cross-compiling, or > cross-assembling. IOW, I am not an utter idiot. In the past gnat's been the canonical example of something that needs to be bootstrapped by hand that makes no sense being in Build-Essential -- it's an Ada compiler written in Ada. While we certainly could drop such packages from the distribution, that doesn't really help anyone. If you want to go through and start providing a list of packages that require special bootstrapping for new architectures, or working out patches so that we can automatically bootstrap them (eg, debian/rules DESTARCH=amd64 cross-binary; or debian/rules bootstrap-binary) that would probably be worthwhile, and I don't see why anyone would reject that sort of contribution. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review! -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/copyright/digitalagenda
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