Re: aligning my embedded Linux efforts with emdebian

[Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>]

Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:35:33PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> > Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> >
> > > > > > May I suggest having a look at http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/ ?
> > > > > > It downloads and builds gcc, binutils, and glibc -- and then
> > > > > > tests them!  I'd be more than happy to have it get more real-world
> > > > > > use; right now it's only well tested for sh4, ppc405, and ppc750.  ...
> > > >
> > > > My crosstool scripts support gcc-2.9x through gcc-3.3
> > > > and glibc-2.2.3 through glibc-3.3.
> > > > Also, Hollabaugh's scripts don't run the binutils, gcc, or glibc
> > > > regression tests; mine do.  You can see my regression results
> > > > at http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/current/summaries/
> > >
> > > That's interesting, do you plan a debian packaging for all that?
> >
> > Yes.  I plan to target RPM, .deb, and .lsb.  (I'd prefer to
> > just target .lsb, and will probably use alien to convert
> > the .lsb's to .deb, if that's how Debian likes to install .lsb's.)
>
> Ugh, a 'real' .deb package is better... I could volunteer for that... 

Hey, that'd be awesome.  How do you generate multiple .deb's
from one source tarball?  Can you have a tiny .deb.src (or whatever)
for each processor type that just has a few parameters, and
depends on a main .deb.src that has the real stuff?

One of these days, we've got to get past the bias against LSB
packages.  Does Debian really not cope well with them?
- Dan

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