Re: question on hurd-i386 Debian architecture

[Pjotr Kourzanov <peter.kourzanov@xs4all.nl>]

Daniel Ruoso wrote:

> Em Seg, 2006-03-13 às 15:04 +0100, Pjotr Kourzanov escreveu:
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> > Also, looking at 
> > http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=i386-uclibc
> > I see only binutils and gcc. In the other thread "cross-compiling Debian 
> > packages"
> > I already mentioned that binutils and gcc are trivial to retarget 
> > nowadays.
> >    
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> Most of the work was made outside everything in irc. I'm too busy in the
> last months, so not much thing happened here. But... The cross-toolchain
> task was just one of them.
>
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> > The tricky bit is patching all those 25411 packages...
> >    
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> The idea now is to use SLIND packages to setup a buildd for uclibc-i386
> (this is the arch name they use, it seems easier to dpkg to handle it),
>  

This is similar to what I've done, too. See
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kurzanov/debian/.
One difference is that I use i386-uclibc (which seems more logical
to me). The other is that I would prefer to contribute all changes
back to Debian so that separate development effort is not required.

> I'm still too busy, and enerv (who was working with me in this project)
> got a new job and is quite busy also. So, we're in a deadlock in the
> moment.
>
> This is a call for help :). If you want to help, just take over the task
> of setting a uclibc-i386 buildd up.
>  

What is the need for buildd?

> daniel
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