Hello Paul, I am going to try to help you as much as possible. On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 19:13, Paul Jimenez wrote: > How can I build a crosscompiler/toolchain with emdebian tools > to support a mipsel processor with no floating point? Once I've > built the toolchain, how do I (re)build packages for said system First of all, we have some toolchains. And they may even work for mipsel, but I am afraid without softfloat (because this is something tricky). Maybe Nikita kan give you more details? > from source? I feel this should be easyish using all of debian's > packaging mechanisms, but it doesn't seem to be. Some combination > of apt-build and apt-fu seems like it might be useful with dpkg's > --root option to make this possible. Well part of the emdebian approach is based on that. I once had a working version of that scheme, but as the tools have changed (and I have a lot lesss time on hand to work on it) I haven't managed to update them. They are in a beta fase, and can be checked out in the SF CVS. Installing them with the --root option is something that did not break, but be carefull to do it with a second package database, because you will otherwise remove system files, instead of the files in the different root dir you specified. See the wrappers (very basic stuff) at stag.mind.be for the correct command line options. Regards, Philippe -- | Philippe De Swert | | Stag developer http://stag.mind.be/ | Emdebian developer: http://www.emdebian.org | | Please do not send me documents in a closed format.(*.doc,*.xls,*.ppt) | Use the open alternatives. (*.pdf,*.ps,*.html,*.txt) | Why? http://pallieter.is-a-geek.org:7832/~johan/word/english/
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