Re: Debian SuperH port

[YAEGASHI Takeshi <t@keshi.org>]

Hi,

In the article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.21.0103151552170.25030-100000@spawn.hockeyfiend.com>,
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org> wrote:

> > Since SH-4 can run SH-3 binaries, I'm going to build sh3/sh3eb
> > binaries as Debian sh/sheb binaries for now.
> 
> Given the above limitation, would it be wise to base the current arch
> builds on SH-3 rather than SH-4?  If I'm understanding this right, some
> things may only run on an SH-4 anyway until the math emulation is working.

Agreed.  I meant for that.


> > Finally, I'm going to write and release some HOWTOs on SuperH (and
> > Dreamcast) development.  Any comments would be appreciated, and I
> > would answer your questions if possible.
> 
> This sounds interesting.  If you can, you may want to bring this up on
> debian-toolchain as well, since we're still dealing with the issue of
> packaging cross-compilers.

Yes.  I wish packages of cross toolchain for SuperH also supported by
Debian.  In my Debian SuperH port, almost all packages are installed
on an x86 machine with dpkg-cross.  dpkg-cross is a very nice tool.

All the resources so far are found at
ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/super-h/debian/.  Note that they are based on
the older architecture scheme (sh3/sh4/sh3eb/sh4eb), not that proposed
here.

Thanks,
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YAEGASHI Takeshi <t@keshi.org>