Re: Non i386 ports.
Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com> wrote:
>
> Just a though:
>
> I see that some people are spending (loosing?) a lot of time
> recompiling packages for m68k and I guess some will soon do (are already
> doing?) the same for sparc, alpha & ppc.
>
> I was wondering if it would be possible and worth to have a m68k
> cross-compiler installed and building binary packages for several
> architectures at the same time.
>
> This feature could be usefull to people having several architecture at
> home, but maybe it could be used for "regular" package upload too.
>
> I think the bigger problem with this is that the developper will
> not be able to test binary packages for other architectures than his
> developping platform, but it could be arranged by marking this binary
> package as 'unstested' in the .changes file. dinstall would not install
> them automatically, but move them into Incoming/untested-m68k.
> That way, people who are currently recompiling everything for
> their architecture will just need to test those packages and "validate them".
>
>
> Comments/Thoughs/Flames?
I think that's a good Idea... but bear in mind, that having a cross compiler
on your system, takes up a huge amount of disk space. So, I don't think all
are able to.
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