Re: cross-compilers

[Emanuele Aina <faina.mail@tiscalinet.it>]

"Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org> dichiarò:

> I guess I'm concerned that we would end up with a package for just about
> every *-linux target from just about every platform that Debian supports
> (eg. (powerpc|i386|mips|mipsel|mips64|hppa|sparc|m68k|s390|...)-linux
> packages compiled on at least 5 archs...any of which may be used by less
> than 50 people total in the end).  In the end, I'm wondering if it's worth
> the archive bloat to actually package that many cross-toolchains for a
> relatively handful of users.  It may be better to have an unofficial
> resting place for such packages....

There is the Embedded Debian Project [ http://www.emdebian.org/ ] that
mantained a complete arm toolchain (and a couple other projects).

Maybe this can be made an official Debian subproject, having a separate
repository.

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