Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)
On 2009-11-02, Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/2 Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>:
>> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:25:16PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>>> So if that is a problem - why not enhance the gcc packaging to build the
>>> cross-compiler packages?
>> Combinatorial explosion ?
> We took this approach, and we have been building this way.
> Binutils, GCC, GDB, EGLIBC have cross built in capability, but some
> tricks (relaying on dpkg-cross) must be done in order to build the
> cross toolchain and Debian autobuilders do not know how to keep with
> this. This is the reason we have been keeping the cross tools at
> emdebian.org site.
>
> Then relaying on -source packages approach was suggested by Matthias
> and not entirely rejected by Ganeff when I talked to him about it. A
> visualization of the build dependencies can be found at:
> http://www.emdebian.org/~zumbi/docs/deps.pdf
>
> There already packages in the archive build depending on -source, like
> binutils-z80, which is not much different from binutils-armel
> approach.
Of course it is a sane approach but very special care needs to be taken when
releasing to ensure GPL compliance. So what we should get is support in the
toolchain to declare against what source package the upload was built to
keep that around.
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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