On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:47:48 +0100, Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> wrote: > +++ Svante Signell [2012-06-28 11:43 +0200]: > > The situation is even more complicated if compiling for different OSes: > > Like as host (build) Linux:i386 and guest (target) kFreeBSD:amd64 or > > Hurd:i386. Any plans to support such combinations with > > cross-build-essential? > > Multiarch should support this and dpkg-architecture already does. So > if someone wants to maintain toolchains to do this then adding an > entry to cross-build-essential is easy. (We didn't put everything > possible supported by dpkg in, because that would be 271 packages :-) > Does it actually need a conventional cross-toolchain or is it like the > amd64/i386 case where a chroot and a personality is all that is needed? > > I admit that I haven't thought about the issues for this particular > case in any detail. Is there actually a demand for being able to do > this? Perhaps for MinGW-w64... Regards, Stephen
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